Questions on legends, figures (usually insets) that indicate what those lines/bars/points in plots refer to, using arrangements of graphic elements and text, whether manually or using built-in functions.
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Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?
So I have a graph with multiple lists, for e.g.
data = {{1,2}, {3,4}, {3,5}, {2,3} . . .}
If I then do ...
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Labeling individual curves in Mathematica
I need to create a plot for export and inclusion in a report. Is there a better way to label curves than PlotLegends? From what I've read and my personal ...
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ListPlot with each point a different color and a legend bar
I would like to generate a ListPlot with the color for each point in the plot corresponding to a particular value (not associated with the position in the plot). I'd then like to add a legend ...
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Sizing cells in a GraphicsGrid/GraphicsRow
I would like to add a colour bar to a plot. I tried to use GraphicsRow for this. In a GraphicsRow, each item is given the same ...
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ShowLegend values
How do I get ShowLegend to put the max and min values that a plot produces.
for example, when using ListDensityPlot, with ...
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Using PlotLegends with Show messes up the graphics
I have already obtained the plot that I want but am having trouble legending the graph correctly.
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Setting the default font for PlotLegends
I'm pleased that Mathematica 9 appears to have brought us prettier legends. If I always want the legend in
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Make legend same height as plot
One common style for density plots is to have a vertical legend that is the same height as the plot itself. Some example density plots from Google Image search:
How can we make DensityPlots with ...
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Changing the order of elements in a chart legend
In a stacked BarChart or Histogram the bars are stacked from bottom to top, while the legend entries are listed from top to ...
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Formatting legend text font
I am using this code to plot a graph, and I am trying to make the font of the legend bigger.
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Adapt ticks in plot and font in legend
Some of my 2-dimensional data are displayed with a code similar to this:
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Number format in Legend Labels
I would like to use the usual (new and nice) BarLegend[] with something like
BarLegend[{"LakeColors", 1/10000 {-2, 2}}]
which ...
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How do I change the Font in BarChart Legend?
Just wondering if anyone knows the proper Syntax to change the Text properties in the BarChart's ChartLegend. I cannot seem to figure out how to get Style[] to apply. Here is an example:
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Legend of a plot: how to increase the size of the line/marker?
I'm using the following kind of code to do the legends of my plots:
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How can I get LineLegend to pick up my plot's BaseStyle?
The new legends functionality in version 9 really simplifies creating legends, and it automatically picks up the styles of the lines.
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How to position legends exactly where I want them?
I just noticed another plot legend question today and while user solutions to this, in particular code by @Jens, are IMO better than the built in solutions, exact positioning often still requires some ...
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Why are PlotLegends not combined with Plots?
I'm using PlotLegends in v9. It seems that in the documentation examples, plots and legends are combined into one graphic:
Here's an example from ...
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Changing the inter-item spacing in Legends (version 9)
The new legending functionality in version 9 is much easier to use than the PlotLegends package and other bespoke ways of creating legends in earlier versions. ...
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1answer
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Logarithmic scale in the legend of a ListContourPlot
Is there a way to use a logarithmic scale in the colour legend of a ListContourPlot? The contours can be logged by taking the ...
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Using PlotLegends
Please don't answer this with "Just trash PlotLegends" or anything like that as I have tried homebrew solutions. I keep running into problems which I can't debug as ...
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Placing bar chart labels on the upper and lower frame axes
In the bar chart (with negative values)
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How To Span Table Headings?
What I am doing wrong? I would like to get a header to the table and based on your code I tried this:
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How can I change the size of the plot markers
I use ListPlot in order to plot four sets of data and also insert legends in my plot. Here is the Mathematica code
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Using PlotLegends with a numeric PointSize
Using PlotLegends with a PlotStyle containing (for instance) PointSize[0.02] creates a ...
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Can I add legends to a SmoothHistogram?
Under the options menu for Histogram, there is an option called ChartLegends, which adds little boxes beside the plot to ...
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How can I label a ListDensityPlot with a color bar?
Here is an example of what is desired, only the result wouldn't be a contour plot, but a ListDensityPlot. The arguments would be a gradient and a list of numbers.
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How do I use the ShowLegends function to produce a legend for my framed graphic?
I'm new to this site and new to Mathematica as you can see from my question. I'm also new to programming, btw.
I'm trying to produce a legend for my plot which I've coded as follows:
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How do I set the boundaries of the legend for a ListDensityPlot?
I have a 3-d array imported from a text file. One dimension represents time, and the other two represent space. It's basically an array of 2-d arrays of temperature values. I want to plot these values ...
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How to add a common color legend to a grid of density plots?
I have a grid of density plots, say something like:
GraphicsGrid[Partition[Table[
DensityPlot[Sin[i x] Sin[y/i], {x, -4, 4}, {y, -3, 3}],
{i, 1, 4}], 2]]
I ...
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Plot CSV-data; make statistical statements in Mathematica / WA
First, I'm quite new to Mathematica so sorry in advance if some questions seem to be trivial.
I have a CSV-file which looks like this:
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Problem with the Plot of Functions and PlotLegends
For some odd reason the PlotLegends output is not as expected.
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How can I create a legend for a Heat Map when I don't want to show the full range of colors?
I produce a heat map with legend with the code shown below
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1answer
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SetOptions or other approach to imposing default styling of text in a BarChart Legend?
Gustavo Delfino's answer to an earlier question showed that it is possible to use the third argument to Placed to format text in a ...
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1answer
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How to set PlotLegend Number Format
Is there any way to make Mathematica to show the legend labels like a real number rather than in fraction form? I read the BarLegend options, however they are just ...
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Selective inclusion of elements in BarChart Legend
Further to my previous question, is there a concise way - amenable to automated setting in a package so that it can be accessed globally - to eliminate some legend item that would otherwise show? For ...
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How can I shift the frame ticks to the corner of each element-cell in a Matrixplot?
I am using the following code,to create a Legend for my plot. I would like to shift (or re-position) the frameticks to the corner of each of the cell-elements instead of being in their middle. I ...
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Is it possible to use styled (e.g., colored) text in PlotLabel?
Sometimes, I want to provide a key or legend for my Plot or ListPlot without using the ...
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ParametricPlot and PlotLegends don't seem to cooperate
I noted that only part of the legend shows up in ParametricPlot using v9's PlotLegends:
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Legend for ListContourPlot
Consider this example below for ListContourPlot.
ListContourPlot[
Table[Sin[j^2 + i], {i, 0, Pi, 0.02}, {j, 0, Pi, 0.02}],
PlotLegends -> Automatic]
I ...
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1answer
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Normalize the PlotLegends and z values for two DensityPlot
I'm trying to compare two DensityPlots:
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1answer
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How can I change the position of my plot legends?
As the title indicates, I want to change the current position of the legends in a combined plot. The Mathematica code I used is
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1answer
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LabelStyle doesn't affect PlotLegends [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Setting the default font for PlotLegends
Using version 9
The option setting for LabelStyle in plots (I've tried this in ...
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Varying plot sizes for identical PlotRanges in ListLinePlot, where one has a legend
I am trying to make some figures using ListLinePlot in Mathematica 8. Although the PlotRanges are the same, the resulting frame sizes are different. The only difference (as I see it) between the two ...
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rasterListContourPlot With PlotLegends in Mathematica 9
Jens Nöckel has write functions about (List) Contour Plots with rasterized shading in Mathematica:
http://pages.uoregon.edu/noeckel/computernotes/Mathematica/rasterContourPlot.html
It works well. ...
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Plot with Legends and Markers [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Creating legends for plots with multiple lines?
I must say I have seen a couple of similar questions but they were not addressing my specific problem.
Level one: I'm ...
