Further reading

The TikZ manual at https://texdoc.org/pkg/tikz explains basic plotting in Part III, Section 22, Plots of Functions. You can read it online at https://tikz.dev/tikz-plots.

Part VI, Data Visualization, covers data point and function plots in depth on more than a hundred pages. This is a new and promising concept; you may consider it as a fresh alternative to pgfplots. The quick link is https://tikz.dev/dv.

The pgfplots package is comprehensively documented in its detailed manual. This excellent reference document contains numerous examples and even tutorials. You can open it at the command line with texdoc pgfplots or visit https://texdoc.org/pkg/pgfplots.

Did you like the tikz.dev deep links to particular sections in past chapters? Then you may appreciate this: while I was writing this book, the pgfplots manual was also made available as an online HTML version. You can browse it at https://tikz.dev/pgfplots.

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