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Matlab Data Plotting

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Plotting Data

Introduction
After you import data into the MATLAB® workspace, it is a good idea to plot the data so that
you can explore its features. An exploratory plot of your data enables you to identify
discontinuities and potential outliers, as well as the regions of interest.
The MATLAB figure window displays plots. See Types of MATLAB Plots for a full
description of the figure window. It also discusses the various interactive tools available for
editing and customizing MATLAB graphics.
Load and Plot Data from Text File
Try This Example
View MATLAB Command

This example uses sample data in count.dat, a space-delimited text file. The file consists of
three sets of hourly traffic counts, recorded at three different town intersections over a 24-
hour period. Each data column in the file represents data for one intersection.
Load the count.dat Data
Import data into the workspace using the load function.
load count.dat

Loading this data creates a 24-by-3 matrix called count in the MATLAB workspace.
Get the size of the data matrix.
[n,p] = size(count)
n = 24
p = 3

n represents the number of rows, and p represents the number of columns.

Plot the count.dat Data


Create a time vector, t, containing integers from 1 to n.
t = 1:n;

Plot the data as a function of time, and annotate the plot.


plot(t,count),
legend('Location 1','Location 2','Location 3','Location','NorthWest')
xlabel('Time'), ylabel('Vehicle Count')
title('Traffic Counts at Three Intersections')
See Also

Types of MATLAB Plots


There are various functions that you can use to plot data in MATLAB®. This table classifies and
illustrates the common graphics functions.

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errorbar pie3 bar3h compass contourslice

area scatter pareto ezpolar fcontour

stackedplot scatter3 stem

loglog scatterhistogram stem3

semilogx spy scatter

semilogy plotmatrix scatter3

fplot heatmap stairs

fplot3 wordcloud

fimplicit parallelplot

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