Shaded time series

Plot time series one above the other with coloured strips highlighting interesting features.

Description

Use this function to plot several time series aligned beneath each other with shaded blocks highlighting important sections.

Acknowledgements

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ShadePlotForEmphasis

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.10 (2010a)

[Shlomi]

if the indicator is a row vector the function doesn't work properly. I added the simple command of indicator = indicator(:); in my code. You should add it too

[Carl Fischer]

Thanks for the suggestion Shlomi. I've submitted an update but I also added some extra sanity checks to ensure sizes are consistent.

[Kuo-Hsien]

Hi Carl, this is a useful function. How to show the box for subplots and legend? thx.

[Carl Fischer]

Thanks for the feedback. Not sure what you mean about subplots.
If you just want to display the part of the legend that shows the shaded colour then you can add legend('Interesting bit'); after this function. I feel that anything more sophisticated will be difficult to generalise and may be quite specific to your particular problem. It might be easier if you tweak the function yourself.

[Carl Fischer]

I uploaded a new version which allows you run this function with only one column of data to populate your own subplots (instead of creating a new figure). Not sure if that's what Kuo-Hsien was requesting. See the examples in the documentation to see how this works.