Plots are created in a Figure task in OMIQ.
The Figure task defaults to Grid Mode. OMIQ has Canvas Mode which allows you more flexibility in creating a layout for your figure. Learn more about it in our Using Canvas Mode in Figure article.
1. Add a Figure Task
Click Add new child task and select Figure from the task selector.
Note that your Workflow might look slightly different, if you are using Compact View.
2. Create a Plot in Figure
Click on New Plot. Select either a Histogram, Contour Plot, Scatterplot, Box Plot, or Bar Chart.
Learn more about box plots in our Create a Box Plot article.
Learn more about bar charts in our Plotting Stacked, Grouped, and Filled Bar Charts article.
Learn how to create certain plot types:
3. Select the Data for your Plot
3.1 Select by Filename
You can Select Data by Filename. This gives you the option to select the specific File from the drop down menu. You can also choose to Concat Files which allows you to virtually concatenate the files.
See Virtual Concatenation in Figure to learn more.
3.2 Select by Metadata
You can Select Data by Metadata. This gives you the option to select a Metadata Dimension that will be used for generating your figure. In the Metadata Multiselect Mode, choose Intersection (AND) to use files that meet ALL the metadata dimensions selected and choose Union (OR) to use files that meet ANY of the metadata dimensions selected.
4. Display a Gate of Interest
Select your plot then click on Settings to open the Plot Settings.
Select the Parent Filter of the gate of interest.
Select the appropriate channels to display in Y-Axis and X-Axis. These channels should match the channels the gate of interest is in.
Scroll down to the Show Gates on Plot and choose to display a gate.
All displays all available gates in the chosen filter. Some allows you to choose the available gates to display in the chosen filter. Any allows you to display any gates based on the chosen channels regardless of filter.
Change the Gate Aesthetics as desired.
5. Customize the Plot Aesthetics
Plot Aesthetics & Labels allows you to further customize how your plot looks. You can choose to display or hide certain aspects of your plot like the Filter Name, Axis Labels, Scale Ticks and Tick Labels. You can also choose to display Metadata associated with your file.
6. Resize the Plot
Changing the Resolution of the plot, changes the size of the plot while maintaining the aspect ratio.
To independently change the x and y resolution of the plot, click on the Unlink X and Y resolution button. This should bring up settings for X Resolution and Y Resolution.
7. Plot Specific Settings
You can set the Line Color, whether the histogram is Filled, the Fill Color, the Smoothing, and the Max Count for a Histogram.
You can set the Point Diameter, Palette, whether the contour plot is Filled, the Smoothing, the Num Levels, whether to Hide Outliers, and the Outlier Percentile.
You can set the Point Diameter, Point Shape, Palette, the Num Levels, and the Outlier Percentile.
You can set the Point Diameter, Point Shape, and point Color.
Select the feature to use as the Coloring Axis. You can then set the Point Diameter, Point Shape, Palette, the Colorbar Min (Minimum), Colorbar Max (Maximum), whether to Show Colorbar, whether to Show Colorbar Ticks.
You can create overlay plot types for Histogram, Contour, and Scatter plots.
When creating an overlay plot type, you would have the option to select the Overlay Type. This allows you to choose between overlaying Filters, Files, or Both. See the section on Selecting the Data for your Plot to learn more about the different options for Select Data By. The option Overlay Filters is displayed when Filters or Both overlay type is selected.
You can set whether the overlaid histograms are Filled, the Overlay Offset, whether to Scale Hist Heights Individually, the Smoothing, the Max Count, and whether to Show Legend.
Scale Hist Heights Individually means that the peaks of the histograms are normalized together. This allows for easy visualization of the peaks of overlaid histograms
You can set the Point Diameter, Palette, the Smoothing, the Num Levels, whether to Hide Outliers, the Outlier Percentile, and whether to Show Legend.
You can set the Point Diameter, Point Shape, whether to Show Layer Numbers on Plot, and whether to Show Legend.