How to make professional-looking figures for manuscripts in Python: Plus Zoom plots

 


Sometimes you need to show a zoomed-in version of a portion or portions of your figure to help the reader better understand what the focus of your work is. 

In this tutorial, a sample code is provided to help build professional-looking figures with zoomed-in insets (axes) in vector format for academic manuscripts including conference/journal manuscripts or theses.

Please note that this library may not always work for your plots, depending on the complexity of your plots. However, this should work for most of the common plots observed in academic and industrial publications. {alertInfo}

This would result in a figure similar to below for option 1

And a figure similar to below for option 2


And a figure similar to below for option 3 - The preferred method by Dr. Rahimi


Dr. Rahimi's library with zoomplot function inside's source code is provided below

The full code, data, and sample plot used for this tutorial can be found below

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