In my graduate work, I used MATLAB extensively for doing analysis and visualization. Often times, the plots that I created were used for my publications. It was then when I started to explore the flexibility of Handle Graphics to customize MATLAB plots in order to create publication-quality graphics. Ultimately, I was able to use MATLAB almost exclusively for my plots. Let me walk you through the
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