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Index
Cover
gnuplot Cookbook
gnuplot Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Why this book?
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
1. Plotting Curves, Boxes, Points, and more
Plotting a function
Plotting multiple curves
Using two different y-axes
Making a scatterplot
Plotting boxes
Plotting circles
Drawing filled curves
Handling financial data
Making a basic histogram plot
Stacking histograms
Plotting multiple histograms
Dealing with errors
Making a statistical whisker plot
Making an impulse plot
Graphing parametric curves
Plotting with polar coordinates
2. Annotating with Labels and Legends
Labeling the axes
Setting the label size
Adding a legend
Putting a box around the legend
Adding a label with an arrow
Using Unicode characters [new]
Putting equations in your labels
3. Applying Colors and Styles
Coloring your curves
Styling your curves
Applying transparency [new]
Plotting points with curves
Changing the point style
Changing the plot size
Positioning graphs on the page [new]
Plotting with objects [new]
4. Controlling your Tics
Adding minor tics
Placing tics on the second y-axis
Adjusting the tic size
Removing all tics
Defining the tic values
Making the tics stick out
Setting manual tics
Plotting with dates and times
Changing the language used for labels [new]
Using European-style decimals [new]
Formatting tic labels
5. Combining Multiple Plots
Arranging an array of plots
Positioning plots manually
Creating an inset plot
Multiplotting with labels and arrows
6. Including Plots in Documents
Introducing gnuplot's high-quality graphics formats [new]
Adding a plot to a paper using LaTeX
Assembling a document using TikZ and LaTeX [new]
Assembling a document using epslatex
Using gnuplot within LaTeX
Creating presentation slides with incrementally displayed graphs
Including a plot in a web page
Making an interactive plot for the Web [new]
7. Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data
Scripting gnuplot with its own language
Plotting on subintervals
Smoothing your data
Fitting functions to your data
Using kdensity smoothing to improve on histograms [new]
Creating a cumulative distribution [new]
Talking to gnuplot with C
Scripting gnuplot with Python
Plotting with Clojure
Handling volatile data [new]
8. The Third Dimension
Making a surface plot
Using coordinate mappings
Coloring the surface
Making a contour plot
Making a vector plot
Making an image plot or heat map
Combining contours and images
Combining surfaces with images
Plotting a path in 3D
Drawing parametric surfaces
9. Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces
Using the Java gnuplot GUI JGP
Using the Emacs GUI
Sharing with Plotshare
Writing a web GUI for gnuplot
10. Surveying Special Topics
Avoiding overlapping labels
Plotting labels from files
Mapping the Earth
Making a labeled contour plot
Softening the axes
Putting arrows on the axes
Plotting with pictures
Breaking an axis
Fitting the grid to the data
Coloring the axes
A. Finding Help and Information
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