How to create a timeline ?

I want to have the time (e.g from january to december) on the x-axis and just location on the "y axis". Example:

LOCATION

location 1 x_________ x

location 2 x __ x

location 3 x x_xx__xxx__xxx

timline jan ---- juni ---- dec --- > 2016

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

See if something like this does what you want:

dnv = datenum([2016 01 00]) + cumsum(eomday(2016, 1:12));       % X-Axis Dates
loc1 = datenum([2016 01 01]) + randi(364, 1, 3);                % Create Data
loc2 = datenum([2016 01 01]) + randi(364, 1, 5);                % Create Data
loc3 = datenum([2016 01 01]) + randi(364, 1, 7);                % Create Data

figure(1)
plot(loc1, 3*ones(size(loc1)), 'x')
hold on
plot(loc2, 2*ones(size(loc2)), 'x')
plot(loc3, 1*ones(size(loc3)), 'x')
hold off
grid
set(gca, 'XTick', dnv)
datetick('x', 'mmm', 'keepticks')
axis([xlim    0  4])

[Star Strider]

kk1991’s Comment moved here:

Yes, thank you. But is it possible to get locations on the y-axis and not number?

[Star Strider]

This works:

dnv = datenum([2016 01 00]) + cumsum(eomday(2016, 1:12));       % X-Axis Dates
loc1 = datenum([2016 01 01]) + randi(364, 1, 3);                % Create Data
loc2 = datenum([2016 01 01]) + randi(364, 1, 5);                % Create Data
loc3 = datenum([2016 01 01]) + randi(364, 1, 7);                % Create Data

figure(1)
plot(loc1, 3*ones(size(loc1)), 'x')
hold on
plot(loc2, 2*ones(size(loc2)), 'x')
plot(loc3, 1*ones(size(loc3)), 'x')
hold off
grid
set(gca, 'XTick', dnv)
datetick('x', 'mmm', 'keepticks')
axis([xlim    0  4])
ytlblstr = sprintf('Location %d\n', 3:-1:1);
ytlbls = regexp(ytlblstr, '\n', 'split');
ytlbls{end} = 'LOCATIONS';
set(gca, 'YTick',1:length(ytlbls), 'YTickLabel',ytlbls)

You can plot the straight lines within the hold block by specifying the x-range and a vector of ones. For example, to plot a line between 15 Mar and 12 May for Location 1, this will work:

plot([datenum([2016 03 15]) datenum([2016 05 12])], 3*[1 1])

Note: ‘Location 1’is y=3, ‘Location 2’ is y=2, ‘Location 3’ is y=1.

Experiment with my code to get the result you want.

[kk1991]

Thank you so much! :)

[Star Strider]

My pleasure!

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