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Adam Danz
Adam Danz
Last activity on 14 Mar 2024

New in R2020b: Two new marker symbols

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The Matlab r2020b release introduces the new horizontal ('_') and vertical (' | ') line marker symbols that are centered around the coordinate similarly to the plus marker ('+').
plot(x,y,'_')
plot(x,y,'|')
See the attached Live Script to reproduce all plots in this post.
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Use case example 1: Days in August 2020 that COVID-19 cases (vertical ticks) and number of tests (horizontal ticks) increased from the previous day in countries with populations greater than 100M (4 countries eliminated for incomplete data).
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Use case example 2: (An alternative to stacked bar plots) Number of power outages in 2005 across regions of the USA, broken down by calendar quarters.