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gnuplot Cookbook
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Preface
Why gnuplot?
Why this book?
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Plotting Curves Boxes Points and more
Introduction
Plotting a function
Plotting multiple curves
Using two different y-axes
Making a scatterplot
Plotting boxes
Plotting circles
Drawing filled curves
Handling financial data
Making a basic histogram plot
Stacking histograms
Plotting multiple histograms
Dealing with errors
Making a statistical whisker plot
Making an impulse plot
Graphing parametric curves
Plotting with polar coordinates
Chapter 2. Annotating with Labels and Legends
Introduction
Labeling the axes
Setting the label size
Adding a legend
Putting a box around the legend
Adding a label with an arrow
Using Unicode characters [new]
Putting equations in your labels
Chapter 3. Applying Colors and Styles
Introduction
Coloring your curves
Styling your curves
Applying transparency [new]
Plotting points with curves
Changing the point style
Changing the plot size
Positioning graphs on the page [new]
Plotting with objects [new]
Chapter 4. Controlling your Tics
Introduction
Adding minor tics
Placing tics on the second y-axis
Adjusting the tic size
Removing all tics
Defining the tic values
Making the tics stick out
Setting manual tics
Plotting with dates and times
Changing the language used for labels [new]
Using European-style decimals [new]
Formatting tic labels
Chapter 5. Combining Multiple Plots
Introduction
Arranging an array of plots
Positioning plots manually
Creating an inset plot
Multiplotting with labels and arrows
Chapter 6. Including Plots in Documents
Introduction
Introducing gnuplot's high-quality graphics formats [new]
Adding a plot to a paper using LaTeX
Assembling a document using TikZ and LaTeX [new]
Assembling a document using epslatex
Using gnuplot within LaTeX
Creating presentation slides with incrementally displayed graphs
Including a plot in a web page
Making an interactive plot for the Web [new]
Chapter 7. Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data
Introduction
Scripting gnuplot with its own language
Plotting on subintervals
Smoothing your data
Fitting functions to your data
Using kdensity smoothing to improve on histograms [new]
How it works…
Creating a cumulative distribution [new]
Talking to gnuplot with C
Scripting gnuplot with Python
Plotting with Clojure
Handling volatile data [new]
Chapter 8. The Third Dimension
Introduction
Making a surface plot
Using coordinate mappings
Coloring the surface
Making a contour plot
Making a vector plot
Making an image plot or heat map
Combining contours and images
Combining surfaces with images
Plotting a path in 3D
Drawing parametric surfaces
Chapter 9. Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces
Introduction
Using the Java gnuplot GUI JGP
Using the Emacs GUI
Sharing with Plotshare
Writing a web GUI for gnuplot
Chapter 10. Surveying Special Topics
Introduction
Avoiding overlapping labels
Plotting labels from files
Mapping the Earth
Making a labeled contour plot
Softening the axes
Putting arrows on the axes
Plotting with pictures
Breaking an axis
Fitting the grid to the data
Coloring the axes
Appendix A. Finding Help and Information
Index
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