# Plot tracks

Aim

Choose Track Visualization to visualize a set of tracks. This function is particularly useful when you want to have an overview of your data acquired so far. If you want to visualize data from one specific trial together with video or external data, see Plot integrated data.

Procedure

1. Choose Analysis > Results > Plot Tracks, or in the Experiment Explorer, under Results, click Track Visualization.

2. On the toolbar, choose the Track Smoothing profile and the Data profile that you want to use. The two profiles define the samples to plot.

3.See Customize tracks and plots .

Notes

▪If you want to plot tracks in colors depending on the value of a dependent variable, like velocity, make sure that that variable is defined in one of the Analysis profiles. Then, repeat the steps above and choose the correct Analysis profile.

▪If your data selection contains nesting criteria, all samples are plotted, however the samples excluded by nesting are displayed in a different color.

▪You may sometimes get the following message:

You have recorded data with more than one Arena Settings, and the layout of the plot matrix is such that tracks obtained with different Arena Settings are expected to be plotted in the same plot. Add the independent variable Arena Settings to the layout (see Sort the track plots by a new variable). Alternatively, in your Data profile filter data from one of the Arena Settings.

▪Sometimes a variable number of cells in the plot matrix are empty. This is caused by the fact that there are no tracks corresponding to the values of the independent variable specified in the plot headers. To create a more compact matrix, choose a different set of independent variables to sort track plots (see Sort track plots).