Dear ASA Colleagues,
For LaTeX users, the following may be of interest. I have written a book (Unlocking LaTeX Graphics) and created a YouTube channel on using TikZ and PGFPLOTS, which are tools for creating graphics directly in LaTeX.
The book is a self-contained reference that covers both TikZ/PGF and PGFPLOTS in just over 100 pages. It establishes fundamentals and builds up from there. Once you understand the underlying objects and operations, creating graphics is more intuitive. You can read this book straight through in a few hours, without needing to jump forward to understand commands that have not yet been introduced. The book summarizes each command in a single table with all key/value pairs. It contains over 100 examples with source code available on GitHub and Overleaf.
The YouTube series is covering the contents of the book. So far, it has covered TikZ paths and is halfway through covering nodes. We walk step by step through examples, and the documents are available on Overleaf to follow along.
I hope these resources are useful.
(I understand, of course, that many folks will use ChatGPT and the like to produce TikZ and PGFPLOTS graphics! This book and video series will enable you to refine these outputs to your needs.)
Best wishes,
Tammy Kolda
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Tamara Kolda
Independent Consultant
MathSci.Ai
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