Gnuplot in Action, Second Edition

Appendix E. Special plots

In this appendix, we’ll discuss several “special” plotting options. All of them produce graphs that are visually and semantically more complicated than the line-and-point plots we’ve been dealing with so far.

First, you’ll learn about gnuplot’s multiplot feature. This is a way to combine different plots into a single graph. The individual components may either be arranged on a regular array (that’s the more common case) or be placed arbitrarily (for example, to create insets within a larger graph).

In the remainder of the appendix, we’ll introduce three types of plots that summarize entire data sets in some way. First, we’ll discuss box-and-whisker plots: a popular method to visualize the distribution of points in ...