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Chapter 3 Step-by-Step
Tutorials
Visualization of data is often necessary and convenient in order to
analyze and communicate results of research, theses, or perhaps just
results.
pgfplots is a visualization tool. The
motivation for pgfplots is that you as
end-user provide the data and the descriptions as input, and
pgfplots takes care of rest such as
choosing suitable scaling factors, scaling to a prescribed target
dimension, choosing a good displayed range, assigning tick
positions, drawing an axis with descriptions placed at appropriate
places.
pgfplots is a solution for an old
problem of visualization in
LaTeX: its descriptions use the same fonts as the embedding text, with
exactly the same font sizes. Its direct embedding in
LaTeX
makes the use of
LaTeX’s powerful math mode as easy as possible: for any kind of
axis descriptions up to user-defined annotations. It features
document-wide line-styles, color schemes, markers… all that
makes up consistency.
pgfplots offers high-quality. At the
same time, it is an embedded solution: it is largely independent of
3rd party tools, although it features import functions to benefit
from available tools.
Its main goal is: you provide your data and your descriptions
– and pgfplots runs without more
input. If you want, you can customize what you want.