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Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia
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This section will briefly mention the most notorious differences between Plots
and Gadfly
plot component nomenclature. In Chapter 5, Introducing the Grammar of Graphics, we described some components of a Gadfly figure. Here, we will highlight Guides
, Coordinates
, and Scales
. Scales
determines the scales used by the axes, color, sizes, shapes, and line styles. Coordinates
chooses the coordinate system for our axes; however, in Gadfly 1.3, only cartesian
coordinates are available.
Finally, Guides
offers support for adding and customizing axes, annotations, titles, and keys. The keys generate the legends of the plot; we can have color, shape, and size keys. If the color scale is continuous, the color key will create a color bar rather than something similar to a Plots
legend. Gadfly’s Guides
will allow you to modify the axes ticks and labels and add rugs. These rugs are short lines that indicate the position in the axes where...