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--- how_to_produce_tikz_plots_for_scientific_publications [2016/01/23 23:45] – created samer
+++ how_to_produce_tikz_plots_for_scientific_publications [2016/01/24 00:17] (current) – samer
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 ====== How to Produce TikZ Plots for Scientific Publications? ======
+Getting nice plots for scientific publications is not optional.
+http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833#pcbi.1003833-Tufte1
+<code matlab>
+figure;
+x=[1:0.01:10];
+plot(x,sin(x));
+xlabel('x');
+ylabel('sin(x)');
+</code>
+<code matlab>
+matlab2tikz(sprintf('./output/gt_power_iteration.tex'),'showInfo', false, ...
+        'parseStrings',false,'standalone', false, ...
+        'height', '\figureheight', 'width','\figurewidth');
+</code>
+<code latex>
+\tikzset{font=\footnotesize}
+\begin{tikzpicture}
+every x tick label/.append style={font =\footnotesize},
+every y tick label/.append style={font =\footnotesize},
+</code>
+<code matlab>
+f=figure;
+boxplot([cum_ee_power_vector_per_user cum_gt_power_vector_per_user cum_maxlog_power_vector_per_user ...
+    cum_pmax_power_vector_per_user cum_ee_nointerf_power_vector_per_user], 'notch', 'off');
+set(gca,'xtick',1:5, 'xticklabel',{'Central-EE', 'Distributed-EE', 'Central-SE', 'Max-Power',  'EE-NoInterference'})
+ylabel('Power (W)');
+cleanfigure;
+print(f,'-depsc', sprintf('./output/heur-boxplot-power%s.eps', figure_file_name));
+savefig(sprintf('./output/heur-boxplot-power%s.fig', figure_file_name));
+matlab2tikz(sprintf('./output/heur-boxplot-power%s.tex', figure_file_name),'showInfo', false, ...
+        'parseStrings',false,'standalone', false, ...
+        'height', '\figureheight', 'width','\figurewidth');
+</code>
+<code latex>
+\usepackage{tikz}
+\usepackage{pgfplots}
+\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
+\usetikzlibrary{plotmarks}
+\usepackage{grffile}
+\newlength\figureheight
+\newlength\figurewidth
+\begin{figure}[!h]
+	\centering
+	\setlength\figureheight{0.3\textwidth}
+	\setlength\figurewidth{0.35\textwidth}
+	\input{figures/matlab-fig-tikz/central-dist-boxplot-objective-10users-7sectors-15RBs-20W.tex}
+	\caption{Energy efficiency of the centralized and distributed approaches}
+	\label{fig:central-dist-boxplot-objective-10users-7sectors-15RBs-20W}
+\end{figure}
+</code>