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Time Series Plot in Staircase Format

Bob Stephens
Posted 11 years ago

I am trying to generate a staircase plot in the format shown in the bottom right image below from the time series data in the enclosed example file. Is there an efficient way to generate the staircase plot? Ideally I need to add a "sample & hold" feature to each data point which could be created either by duplicating time series entries or by using a unique shape with the desired width for each time series point?

thanks

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Bob Stephens
Posted 11 years ago

Agree - the Manipulate functionality is well designed and it probably makes sense to just use Manipulate features which are more flexible than a hard-wired option in ListLinePlot. Thanks for the suggestion - see final result below.

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POSTED BY: David Reiss
Bob Stephens
Bob Stephens
Posted 11 years ago

Thanks David that does indeed work, I should have looked at a smaller data set first. A good option for ListLinePlot would be a setting that allows the user to set a "window size" on a long list and add a scroll view to the plot so that in this case you would see the entire data set (with this option set) but only if you move the horizontal scroll bar. You could generate the same thing in manipulate but it would be nice if ListLinePlot could simply add it as an option.
POSTED BY: Bob Stephens

If one reads in your file as follows and call the result data

data = Flatten@Import["path to timeSeriesData.csv"]

then you will get a staircase plot using ListLinePlot if you set its InterpolationOrder option to 0 as in:

ListLinePlot[data[[;; 100]], InterpolationOrder -> 0]

I am only plotting the first 100 points from data here since plotting the full 1000 points just results in a dense plot that shows as a single block of color for your particular data set.
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