MATLAB Graphics and Data Visualization Cookbook
Table of Contents
Preface 1
Chapter 1: Customizing Elements of MATLAB Graphics—the Basics 7
Introduction 7
Making your first MATLAB plot 10
Laying out long tick labels without overwriting 14
Using annotations pinned to the axes 18
Tufte style gridding for readability 22
Bringing order to chaos with legends 28
Visualizing details with data transformations 34
Designing multigraph layouts 37
A visualization to compare algorithm test results 44
Chapter 2: Diving into One-dimensional Data Displays 49
Introduction 50
Pie charts, stem plots, and stairs plots 50
Box plots 54
Sparklines 59
Stacked line graphs 63
Node link plots 66
Calendar heat map 71
Distributional data analysis 74
Time series analysis 79
Chapter 3: Graduating to Two-dimensional Data Displays 87
Introduction 88
Two-dimensional scatter plots 88
Scatter plot smoothing 92
Bidirectional error bars 95
2D node link plots 97
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Dendrograms and clustergrams 100
Contour plots 103
Gridding scattered data 107
Choropleth maps 111
Thematic maps with symbols 114
Flow maps 117
Chapter 4: Customizing Elements of MATLAB Graphics—Advanced 123
Introduction 123
Transparency 123
Lighting 128
View control 135
Interaction between light, transparency, and view 138
Chapter 5: Playing in the Big Leagues with Three-dimensional
Data Displays 143
Introduction 143
3D scatter plots 144
Slice (cross-sectional views) 148
Isosurface, isonormals, isocaps 156
Stream slice 160
Stream lines, ribbons, tubes 162
Scalar and vector data with a combination of techniques 166
Explore with camera motion 170
Chapter 6: Designing for Higher Data Dimensions 175
Introduction 176
Fusing hyperspectral data 176
Survey plots 180
Glyphs 186
Parallel coordinates 192
Tree maps 195
Andrews' curves 197
Downsampling for fast graphs 199
Principal Component Analysis 202
Radial Coordinate Visualization 206
Chapter 7: Creating Interactive Graphics and Animation 209
Introduction 209
Callback functions 210
Obtaining user input from the graph 216
Linked axes and data brushing 220