# Redux: Why does ListPlot3D not work within Dataset?

**URL:** <https://community.wolfram.com/t/redux-why-does-listplot3d-not-work-within-dataset/7905>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** data-science, graphics-and-visualization\
**Created:** [February 15, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/redux-why-does-listplot3d-not-work-within-dataset/7905 "2016-02-15T02:05:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![coachklc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@coachklc](https://community.wolfram.com/u/coachklc)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2016, 2:05am UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/redux-why-does-listplot3d-not-work-within-dataset/7905/1 "2016-02-15T02:05:24Z")

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The attached notebook describe my problem:  
Generate a table of data  
Use ListPlot3D to show the resulting surface.  
Encapsulate the data into a Dataset and use ListPlot within the Dataset construct to plot portions of the data in 2D.  
Try to plot using ListPlot3D to replicate the surface obtained above; seeming does not work.  
What am I doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![jasondbiggs](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/wolfram/user_avatar/community.wolfram.com/jasondbiggs/32/28365_2.png) [@jasondbiggs](https://community.wolfram.com/u/jasondbiggs)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/redux-why-does-listplot3d-not-work-within-dataset/7905/2 "2016-02-18T15:37:04Z")

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Coachklc,  
See [this post](http://mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/61572/9490) - it would seem that some functions have been updated to work with Association objects but others haven’t.

For example, `bikeDS[ListPointPlot3D, {"A", "B", "C"}]` works out of the box, but `bikeDS[ListPlot3D, {"A", "B", "C"}]` doesn’t.

The workaround is to use `bikeDS[ListPlot3D, {#A, #B, #C} &]` This notation works for all the functions, i.e. `bikeDS[ListPlot, {#A, #C} &]` etc.

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**Author:** ![coachklc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@coachklc](https://community.wolfram.com/u/coachklc)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://community.wolfram.com/t/redux-why-does-listplot3d-not-work-within-dataset/7905/3 "2016-02-18T22:25:05Z")

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Jason,  
Thanks so much for getting back to me with this!  
Also for not berating me for not having found a year-old post!  
I am so grateful for your help…thought I was going bonkers…  
Coachklc