On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have several line graphs on a single plot. I'd like to indicate what is
> the
> mean of each of them (they are showing cumulative distributions).
>
> Each is a different color.
>
> I tried putting 'mean=xxx' into the legend. That works, but I think it's
> confusing. The legend normally displays independent variables, not
> results.
>
> I put vertical lines and then text, vertically, just below the x-axis
> giving the
> mean values. Not very clear.
>
> This is not really a technical question, but one of presentation style.
> How to
> convey this information?
>
>
>
While I realize that you are not asking for the technical question of "how
to do this", but rather "how to do this so that it looks right", I want to
add some links to some examples on how to technically do annotations in case
anyone stumbles across this question while searching.
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/annotation_demo.html
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/annotation_demo2.html
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/annotation_demo3.html
Ben Root
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