Chapter 2. Annotating with Labels and Legends
This chapter contains the following recipes:
- 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
Introduction
The graphs we created in the previous chapter served the purpose of illustrating the various 2D plot styles, but they were all missing a few things. For a graph to be useful in the real world, it must be endowed with a title and various labels that explain what it is about and how to interpret its assorted plot elements.
In this chapter, we revisit the 2D graph, creating one with a few curves, two different y-axes, and shaded areas, and in each recipe, we add an additional ...
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