How do I plot text instead of points?

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I’ve got some data, a subset of which looks like this:

fqData = {
   <| "Application" -> "Chess", "x" -> 9.0, "y" -> 2.5|>,
   <| "Application" -> "Drive", "x" -> 7.0, "y" -> 8.5|>
   
   };

I’ve mapped the x and y coordinates to a list, and used ListPlot to plot those points. But instead of seeing standard markers at each point, I would prefer to plot the actual label values, like “Chess” and “Drive”, so something like the following, only with the correct labels in each place.

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I thought PlotMarkers would do the trick for me (its how I got the above), but if you want to vary the plot markers, it only seems to apply to whole lists, so only useful in a situation where you are plotting a list of lists, where x axis values are assumed, and each point from a given sub-list is the same.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Brad

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Graphics[
{Text[“Chess”, {9, 2.5}],
Text[“Drive”, {7, 8.5}]},
PlotRange → {{0, 10}, {0, 10}},
Frame → True,
BaseStyle → {FontSize → 12}]

3

Thanks.

I had considered Graphics[], but was hoping to leverage ListPlot[], because it gives me access to some options Graphics[] does not on its own (if I understand correctly), like PlotTheme.

And the workbook I am writing contains plenty of other charts where ListPlot[] would be ideal. Sticking to one base plotting function would be best for me.

4

Not sure, but I think this is like what you want:

fqData = {<|"Application" -> "Chess", "x" -> 9.0, "y" -> 2.5|>,
   <|"Application" -> "Drive", "x" -> 7.0, "y" -> 8.5|>,
   <|"Application" -> "Chess", "x" -> 2.0, "y" -> 5.5|>}

datasets = GatherBy[fqData, #["Application"] &];

ListPlot[{#["x"], #["y"]} & /@ # & /@ datasets,
 PlotMarkers -> (First[#]["Application"] & /@ datasets),
 PlotRangePadding -> {Scaled[.06], Automatic}]

The plot range needed a little extension to include the names, which are considerably wider than points.