Chapter 14. Topics in graphical analysis
This chapter covers
- Techniques for time-series plots
- Techniques for multivariate data sets
- Techniques to improve visual perception
The previous chapter discussed some fundamental graphical methods that are very generally useful. In this chapter, I’ll select a few tasks that are more specific and explore them in greater depth.
Because of their immense practical importance, our first topic will be the handling of time series. In particular, you’ll see some clever ways to smooth a time series using only gnuplot commands. The next topic concerns multivariate data sets: data sets with more than two or three different attributes. A variety of techniques are available for such data, and some of gnuplot’s ...
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