Day 8: Working with Graphs and Plots

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[->] (-3, 0) -- (4.2, 0) node[right] {$x$};
\draw[->] (0, -3) -- (0, 4.2) node[above] {$y$};
\draw[domain=-3:3, variable= \x] plot ({\x}, {\x*\x});
\draw[domain=-3:3,variable= \y] plot ({\y*\y}, {\y});
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=0.45]
\draw[->] (-1,0) -- (10,0) node[below] {$x$};
\draw[->] (0,-1) -- (0,10) node[above] {$y$};
\draw [domain=0.1:10,samples=50] plot (\x,{1/(\x)}) node[right] {$f(x)=\frac{1}{x}$};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Pgfplot
The pgfplots package is a powerful tool for graphing in LaTeX. This package is based on tikz
and dedicated to creating scientific graphs. Therefore, Pgfplots is a visualization tool to make
plots in documents. The basic idea is, we provide the input data/formula and pgfplots does the
rest.
The following are the axis option tags []
Axes
xmin=1, xmax=3, ymin=1, ymax=4, width=15cm, height=8cm
xtick={1,2,3}, xticklabels={Step1,Step2,Step3}
axis lines
It changes the way the axes are drawn. default is 'box. Other options are
box, left, middle, center, right, none
Label
xlabel = $x$, ylabel = {$f(x)$},
 Grids
grid = major
grid style={dashed, gray!30}
legend pos
\addlegendentry{$x$}
south west, south east, north west, north east, outer north east
mark
It is type of marks used in data plotting. When a single character is used, the character
appearance is very similar to the actual mark. The other options are
*, x , +, |, o, asterisk, star, 10-pointed star, oplus, oplus*, otimes, otimes*, square,
square*, triangle, triangle*, diamond, halfdiamond*, halfsquare*, right*, left*,
Mercedes star, Mercedes star flipped, halfcircle, halfcircle*, pentagon, pentagon*,
cubes. (cubes only work on 3d plots).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[xmax=9,ymax=9, samples=50]
\addplot[blue, ultra thick] (x,x*x);
\addplot[red, ultra thick] (x*x,x);
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[]
\addplot[domain=0.1:10]{1/x};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
 Join Points
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot coordinates{(0,0) (0.5,1) (1,2)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Plot Graph
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[color=red]{exp(x)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Plot Graph
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[axis lines = left, xlabel = $x$, ylabel = {$f(x)$}]
\addplot[color=red]{exp(x)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Add Axes
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[axis lines = left, xlabel = $x$, ylabel = {$f(x)$}]
\addplot[color=red]{exp(x)};
\end{axis}
 \end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Add Axes and Domain

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[axis lines = left, xlabel = $x$, ylabel = {$f(x)$}]
\addplot[color=red]{exp(x)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

Add legend
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[axis lines = left, xlabel = $x$, ylabel = {$f(x)$}]
\addplot[domain=-10:10, samples=100, color=red]{x^2 - 2*x - 1};
\addlegendentry[]{$x^2 - 2x - 1$}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Plot trig function
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot[domain=0:360] {sin(x)};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Plot parametric function
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot3[domain=0:15, samples = 60, samples y=0]
({sin(deg(x))},{cos(deg(x))},{x});
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
Plot surface
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}
\addplot3[surf]{exp(-x^2-y^2)*x};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}