Skills Sharing: How to Log-Log subplot with strings as labels GLEON Fellowship Workshop January 14-18, 2013 Sunapee, NH Emily Kara Read

Strings as labels This script is an example of how to pull strings (text) from a cell array to use as a label For example, if you import a.txt file that has text headers, that text will not be recognized as data, but as strings. Those strings can be accessed for functions such as to make a figure label or axis label using the syntax described here

Skill relevance/usefulness Seems so simple but non-intuitive Didn’t know how to make labels from array of strings Learned how to do and wrote a script for reference Very handy because maximizes automation for scripting functions

Application to data Used EPA NLA dataset as a example case Water quality dataset from >1000 lakes all sampled in 2007 Main challenges – Non-intuitive syntax – Hard to search for examples – Horizontal concatenation title(labels{i});

Data visualization