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Lee Phillips
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Lee Phillips grew up on the 17th floor of a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Hampshire College, where he studied Physics, Mathematics, and Music. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Dartmouth in theoretical and computational physics for research in fluid dynamics. After completing post-doctoral work in plasma physics, Dr. Phillips was hired by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he worked on various problems, including the NIKE laser fusion project. Dr. Phillips is now the Chief Scientist of the Alogus Research Corporation, which conducts research in the physical sciences and provides technology assessment for investors.
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Introduction


The graphs we created in the previous chapter served the purpose of illustrating the various 2D plot styles, but they were all missing a few things. For a graph to be useful in the real world, it must be endowed with a title and various labels that explain what it is about and how to interpret its assorted plot elements.

In this chapter, we revisit the 2D graph, creating one with a few curves, two different y-axes, and shaded areas, and in each recipe, we add an additional informative decoration to the plot. The graph remains the same, but in each recipe it will acquire more detailed annotation. This chapter is all about how to make these annotations, not about the plotting itself.

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Lee Phillips grew up on the 17th floor of a public housing project on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He attended Stuyvesant High School and Hampshire College, where he studied Physics, Mathematics, and Music. He received a Ph.D. in 1987 from Dartmouth in theoretical and computational physics for research in fluid dynamics. After completing post-doctoral work in plasma physics, Dr. Phillips was hired by the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he worked on various problems, including the NIKE laser fusion project. Dr. Phillips is now the Chief Scientist of the Alogus Research Corporation, which conducts research in the physical sciences and provides technology assessment for investors.
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