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pgfplots: Aligning multiple bars and marks horizontally along symbolic X-axis

I want to plot average values of some measure as bar charts with error bars and its maximal values as marks above the bars. I use two separate plots for that now. The problem is aligning marks with ...
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1answer
190 views

Move legend closer

I wish to move the legend for the left chart closer to the graph, and for the right graph, I wish to let the x-axis and y-axis appeared just like the left graph (so that there is some extra spaces to ...
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2answers
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How to plot the graph below?

May I know how to draw the graph as shown below? below is a code I have try but with look and feel that is quite far away from the example: \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ legend pos=north ...
14
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1answer
625 views

Drawing timeline

I have a dataset which consists of repeating events over time. Each event takes an arbitrary amount of time. I could plot this using gnuplot but am unable to produce correct keys because of the ...
18
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3answers
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How to design a 3D donut pie chart with pgf-plot?

It seems that pgfplots users don't like pie charts but sometimes we can't go without (for some reasons). So I was wondering if there was a way to make what is called a donut chart. For example one ...
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1answer
625 views

Horizontal bar-charts in PGFPlots: “point meta” messes with alignment

I'm drawing a rather unusual bar-chart to display the results of a small survey. The axis of the chart extends in both the negative and the positive domain. However, there is no zero and all values ...
5
votes
1answer
392 views

How to enforce printing the decimal part in pgfmath macros?

I have the opposite problem to this question. I want the decimal parts of an integer printed for consistency's sake. I already tried specifying the precision but without success. See below. ...
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How to minimize the ink-to-data ratio for pgfplots

Tufte advocates to "minimize the ink-to-data ratio" for charts. I am trying to style a multi data series bar chart, that can have a grid and axes as shown below (chart at the left is from the ...