Splitting axis labels

A non-cluttered way to display many labels in a single axis: split the labels in two columns.

Reference Poza M, Gayoso C, Gómez MJ, Rumbo-Feal S, Tomás M, et al. (2012) Exploring Bacterial Diversity in Hospital Environments by GS-FLX Titanium Pyrosequencing. PLoS ONE 7(8): e44105.
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044105  (paper link)

Read more...

Two axes in one

An intelligent (nice, informative and compact) way of breaking up an axis without the need of doubling the axis in two lines. 

Figure 1. Sample- and individual-based rarefaction and accumulation curves. Accumulation curves (jagged curves) represent a single ordering of individuals (solid-line, jagged curve) or samples (openline, jagged curve), as they are successively pooled.  [...]

Reference Gotelli, N.J. and Colwell, R.C. (2001) Quantifying biodiversity: procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4: 379–391. (paper link)

Input courtesy of Dr. Conchita Alonso

Read more...