Questions tagged [legending]
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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Add tick at zero with label 0
I am trying to get a label "0" at the origin to display. Currently it is not displaying (code below). Other tick labels work fine, just not at zero. I suppose I could use ...
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LegendMarker in combination with Placed [duplicate]
I am trying to change the Marker size in my legend when I am trying to use Placed. If I don't use Placed I was able to use LegendMarkerSize to change it (as shown by some answers on this site), but I ...
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Force BarLegend to show numbers
I have the following BarLegend:
BarLegend[{"GreenPinkTones", {-0.99, 0.99}}]
It does not show -0.99 and 0.99. How can I force it to show these numbers at the ...
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Adding color legend to a 4d plot
I have to plot a function of three varaibles $F(\theta,\beta,\gamma)$ with version 10.0 and I thought to follow the first advice of this answer, so my plot is given by:
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How to specify continuous color spectrum in a custom BarLegend?
I want to create a custom BarLegend with continuous colors:
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How to use MatrixPlot as a DensityPlot?
I have a 1000x1000 matrix the MatrixPlot of which gives this graph:
The code is
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Automatic generation of filenames from column values and automatic PlotLegends labels from file names?
I have a two-part question about the automatic generation of file names and Plot Legends, Labels.
Part 1:
I typically work with very large matrices of data with columns of the form:
MASTERdataset: ...
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Evaluate and PlotLegends
Related to this question here. I dont understand why Evaluated->True does not behave properly when also using PlotLegends. For example, running the code below
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How to add colors and legends to plots with “Show” [duplicate]
I have lets say three plots A, B, C. I know that in order to plot them on top of each other I can use Show function and it will show them all together,
Is there a ...
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Euler's constant 'e' in italic in plot legend
I'm new to Mathematica. I wrote the following code and got the output as follows
I cannot reproduce the code here as I don't know how to type 'e' in the blackboard font. I typed it in Mathematica by ...
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Legend for Bubblechart
I am trying to create an easy legend with bubbles for a Bubblechart.
The legend should have the BubbleSizes -> {.02, .05}, for the scores 3 to 8 and ranging with the rainbow colors. Basically this ...
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Add a legend to a combined Plot
I have trouble adding a second legend to this map (see picture underneath). I need the legend to that show each existing bubble size, with the respective rainbow color (from the map) and with the ...
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Combining two world maps
I am trying to combine two world maps with the command "show" and Mathematica indicates an error (see images underneath). Does anyone know what the problem might be and how I can solve it? I am ...
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Placing plot legends inside a plot
I'm trying to overlay legends inside of a plot, so that if you were to right-click on the graphic and save it the legends would be included, but I can't seem to do it in a good way. I tried ...
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Tooltip for BarChart
I'm not looking for something super fancy, but just getting BarChart to show X value and Y value seems to be challenging to get. Here's a toy example.
data = {{"Data 1", -10.}, {"Data 2", 3.}, {"Data ...
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How to force DensityHistogram to draw empty bins?
By default, when using the "Count" density specification, DensityHistogram does not plot empty bins. And thus the legend starts ...
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How to add a legend to a `SmoothDensityHistogram`?
Is there a way to add a legend to a SmoothDensityHistogram?
DensityHistogram accepts the ...
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Specifying the font size and font style for plot legends [closed]
How can I change the font size and font style for the line legends?
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Adding a bar legend to a 3D plot indicating surface curvature by color
I want to color surfaces according to its Gaussian curvature, but the color bar is not consistent with the color.
How can I improve it?
Color a HyperbolicParaboloid according to its Gaussian ...
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How to change the font in LineLegend?
Is it possible to change the font in LineLegend? In fact, I need a mathematical font (like Times) in this part.
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Proper plot scaling with 3 y-axis scales
I used the answer from @bobthechemist to produce a graph with three y-axes. The data and code can be found in this Mathematica notebook on Dropbox, ready for use. The series have 93 observations each ...
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More space between the ordinate axis ans plot labels
I have this graphics.
All I want is more place like a space or interval between labels and the ordinate azis. How could I do that?
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How to set the magnitude of the colors in DensityPlot?
I have used the DensityPLot to show two functions $f_1$ and $f_2$ in different regions. I want to combine them using the Show function. The problem is, the colors are not consistent in the two ...
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How can I color the elements of the largest strongly connected component in ListPlot
The following Code:
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Cleanest way to plot multiple functions given a list of parameter values?
I have a function of two variables
f[x_,t_]:= ...
and I want to build a command that plots the list of functions {f[x,t_i]} given any list of parameter values {...
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Reduce spacing between legend entries using Show
I am creating two plots and using Show to overlay, however the legend has a very large inter-line spacing. This answer suggests using Image Size but my legend is not a separate graphics object. This ...
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BarLegend and ContourLabels in ContourPlot
I have tried to manage my problem with the rich literature on this site, but I am failing...
I want to roughly reproduce this plot from a paper I am interested in:
What I've tried to do is the ...
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How to control the padding below a BarLegend?
BarLegend has an annoyingly large space at the bottom. I can see that this was added to make it line up with the frame of the plot when there is a bottom frame ...
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Number of columns in PlotLegends
Is there a way to set the number of columns used in PlotLegends? Found
this answer but it is for LegendLayout:
LegendLayout ...
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Is there a better fix for this problem with Legended in DateListPlot?
data = {{{{2010, 3, 31}, 100.}, {{2010, 9, 30}, 110.}},
{{{2010, 3, 31}, 80.}, {{2010, 9, 30}, 90.}}};
DateListPlot[data]
With only two data points in all the ...
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Plot problems: vertical lines and letters [closed]
In few words, I would make this graph:
My many problems are the following:
How do I plot a vertical line? What's the equation?
How do I add the letters on the lines?
How to make the Ticks like $...
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Let `PlotLabel` use data set names in a list of plots
In the code below, how to make PlotLabel automatically show the name of the data sets (i.e., aa, bb, cc)?
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Assigning labels to numbers in ListContourPlot
I am trying to plot some 2D data using ListContourPlot. The quantity to be plotted has only three discrete values 0, 1, 2. While plotting them, I want to assign these numbers some labels say A, B, C, ...
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How to specify coordinated of legend box using Show and Epilog functions?
I am trying to place the legend box using epilog function. I'm unsure where I can specify the coordinated in the sample code to specify the position.
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PlotLegends don't match the plot's curves
Can anyone help me make the legends(markers) match with the figure curves?
I have 2 figures that have three curves each, and then I have to combine them.
I used the following code for the first figure:...
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Plotting with sub and superscripts on the PlotLabels
Bug persists through 12.0.
I'm trying to produce a plot with PlotLabels that include sub- and superscripts. However, I haven't been able to do it consistently. ...
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Is there a PlotLabels placement such as “Above Left” or “Below Right”, etc.?
I am trying to add labels to a plot in specific positions. I give a simple example:
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Editing the graphic generated by ListDensityPlot
I have generated a graphic using ListDensityPlot in Mathematica, I want to make following three edits to it, but not finding a way. Would be thankful for any advice.
How to rotate the graphic. My ...
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How create a general legend which always remain on top of the plot
I am writing a small report, wherein I have several plots, some plots are on a linear-linear scale, some are in log-linear scale, some in log-log. The problem I am facing is every time I change my ...
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Match light-shaded colors to plot themes for RegionPlot
I have a problem very similar to the one in the following topic:
Match colors to plot themes. I want to extract the color of a plot for the corresponding legend. However, as I use a RegionPlot I am ...
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Is there any possibility that we can place the the legends manually using mouse
I have a plot in LogLinear scale I wanted to put the legend in the top of the plot horizontally. Can I place this manually, It is extremely difficult to place it through code. this is my customized ...
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Equally spaced contours on a Bar Legend
The function BarLegend[{"Rainbow",{0,1}},4] should result in a bar legend with range 0 to 1 with 4 equally spaced contours.
I was hoping to get contours at ...
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BarLegend for custom colour function
How do I change this code so the desired BarLegend is displayed?
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How to show legends verticaly using ParametricPlot and Show
I am trying to combine 10 different plots using Show. My code has the following form
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How to increase the pointsize of the point-markers in the legend of a cluster-chart?
I start the following mock data set:
data = RandomReal[{0, 700}, {10^4, 2}];
I use k to define the number of cluster points:
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Are there better ways to plot a continuous scalar function of three variables?
I am plotting a continuous scalar function of three variables with this code:
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