how to create timeline plot?

Hi all,

I want to create a timeline plot similer to the following:

North | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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Central | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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Jan Feb Mar Apr .....etc

start date end date start date end date

the time periods for the north are datenum([2019 01 30]) datenum([2019 04 12], and datenum(2019,07,03) datenum(2019,08,25)

Time for the Central is datenum(2019,01,08) datenum(2019,03,03)

Any help will be appreciated

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Try this:

North = [datenum([2019 01 30]), datenum([2019 04 12]); datenum(2019,07,03) datenum(2019,08,25)];
Central = [datenum(2019,01,08) datenum(2019,03,03)];

figure
plot(North', ones(2)*2, '-b', 'LineWidth', 5);
hold on
plot(Central, [1 1], '-r', 'LineWidth',5)
hold off
ylim([0 3])
datetick('x', 'mmm')
set(gca, 'YTick',[1 2], 'YTickLabel',{'Central','North'})

There are also other options, for example using the patch function. It depends on what you want to do.

[Lilya]

Thank you very much!

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

[Lilya]

May I ask for extra help ? :$

I get lost when I tried to apply the same code to obtain the same attached figure.

could you please help me with that?

I do appreciate it.

[Star Strider]

I will do my best.

My best guess is that you would need to do something like this for multiple timelines:

plot(North', ones(size(North'))*k, '-b', 'LineWidth', 5);

where ‘k’ is the y-value where you want to plot them.

As always, my pleasure.

[Lilya]

Thanks like a bunch!

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!

Answer 2

[Farhan ul haq]

I want to create plot like this