You can shift your axes, ticks and labels to obtain the axis effect. Adjusting the color of the plot and the size of the marks, gets you closer to the general style. Labels may be added via nodes referencing points in the data coordinate system.
I have updated my previous answer to include new features of pgfplots
and placed much of the code in a single tuftelike
style. Many thanks to Christian Feuersänger for his continued work on the pgfplots
package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=1.13}
\pgfkeys{/pgfplots/tuftelike/.style={
semithick,
tick style={major tick length=4pt,semithick,black},
separate axis lines,
axis x line*=bottom,
axis x line shift=10pt,
xlabel shift=10pt,
axis y line*=left,
axis y line shift=10pt,
ylabel shift=10pt}}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[every pin/.style={red!50!black,font=\small\sffamily}]
\begin{axis}[tuftelike,
xlabel={$L$ [H]},
ylabel={$\hat{I}_{DM}$ [A]},
enlarge x limits=false,
xtick=data,
ytick={0.4,0.6,...,1.801},
ymin=0.4,ymax=1.8]
\addplot[black,mark=*,mark size=1.5pt]
coordinates{(948e-6,1.61981) (1.5e-3,1.02377) (2e-3,0.769047)
(2.5e-3,0.614994) (3e-3,0.503511)};
\node[coordinate,pin=above right:{2007}] at (axis cs:1.5e-3,1.02377) {};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
The form of the axis is obtained by using separate axis lines
and the axis ... line*
styles. Axis shifting is obtained via the axis ... line shift
and ...label shift
commands. These could be issued as one common command, but I have kept the x
and y
variants visible should you need to change them individually. Adjustment of tick styling and color is from the semithick
and the tick style
.
(The last ytick
value is 1.801
instead of 1.8
because of rounding problems in the internal arithmetic.)
The code
[every pin/.style={red!50!black,font=\small\sffamily}]
provides the style for the label of the given point on the graph.
Thesis.zip
(it seems to be offline)?