Add space between scatterpoint and text label?

I have a scatterplot where I have added text to every datapoint. It works as expected but the text is to low in respect to the datapints. I would like to add some space between the point and the actual label. How do I do that?

text(KPI,Inkomst, years, 'VerticalAlignment','bottom', 'HorizontalAlignment', 'center')

[Stephen23]

" I would like to add some space between ..."

What does that mean more concretely: do you want to translate horizontally up/down, or translate vertically up/down, or both?

Please describe how you want to move the text.

Answer 1

[Stephan]

Hi,

depending on how you want to move the text with respect to your data you can use the

• 'HorizontalAlignment' - Property
• 'VerticalAlignment' - Property
• or add a fixed value to the coordinates of your data points.

The description for #1 and #2 can be found in the documentation .

The last option is described here.

Also Adam Danz shared a function for this at File Exchange.

An example of the use of the give 3 options is:

x = randi(25,1,10)
y = randi(25,1,10)
scatter(x,y)
text(x, y+0.3, num2str(y(:)), 'HorizontalAlignment', 'center', 'VerticalAlignment', 'bottom', 'Color', 'r')

Best regards

Stephan

[Cliff Karlsson]

thank you "y+0.3" was what I was looking for.