As my tool of choice for most calculations is Matlab, most of my data ends up in the Matlab workspace at some point and gets plotted from there. And often, the most important parts of our written documents are the figures that visualize the data we generated. The next post in this series will look at automating these steps with a wrapper function that you can use when making (practically) any figure.For us researchers, writing documentation and preparing manuscripts for publication is a large part of our work. We’ve gotten the original desired figure, so that stage is complete. But I’ve used them in crowded figures and they can really help to see things clearly. In this case, the arrows and ellipses don’t add much for understanding the figure. Here is our plot with some manually-placed arrows and ellipses: Figure with arrows and ellipses. Text arrows are much harder to tweak because the text location is determined automatically. I recommend using separate text boxes and arrows instead of a “text arrow”. For example, you can group a set of curves with an ellipse and use an arrow to point from the label. If your figure has many sets of curves, then you might find it helpful to be more specific with your annotations. By placing these boxes near their corresponding curves we get our desired result: Done. The text can now be set to “Growth” and we can duplicate the box to make one that says “Decay”.
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