How to plot several sets of data?

There are 3 sets of data. Each set of data has 5 columns one column is bacteria counts and another is the day. How would you plot the day vs the bacteria counts for all three sets of data?

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I would use subplot. I don’t know how your data are organized otherwise, so I can’t be more specific than that.

For example, if your data sets are Data1...Data3, the days are in column 1 and the counts are in column 2, this would work:

figure(1)
subplot(3,1,1)
plot(Data1(:,1), Data1(:,2))
subplot(3,1,2)
plot(Data2(:,1), Data2(:,2))
subplot(3,1,3)
plot(Data3(:,1), Data3(:,2))

[Dustin]

I'm not familiar with subplot. For example what does subplot (3,1,1) mean in this situation?

[Joseph Cheng]

subplot(3,1,1) means it will setup a subplot 3 rows by 1 column and set position 1. If you check the link Star Strider has for subplot it does a good job at explaining how to use subplot.

[Dustin]

Thank you

[Star Strider]

Thank you Joseph!

[Joseph Cheng]

? you're the one that answered. I just happened to swing by during my usual progress bar boredom.

[Star Strider]

True, but I appreciate your contribution. I was away for a few minutes.