Stretching axis to observe data

hey, I have plotted a graph as seen in the doc of Wind speeds vs Hourly Time(Jan 2000 to March 2015). As you can see the periods nor the characteristics cannot be clearly seen. The dataset is quite large with 131400 points, but is there a way to stretch the data out to observe it a better?

Answer 1

[dpb]

Well, since your monitor probably has only roughly 2000 pixels/line even if you could draw your plot with every bit for the graph line (no axis, no nothing else) there would still be some ~131/2 --> 65 data points/pixel so it's physically impossible to have enough resolution to show it all at one time. You'll have to look at pieces of the time series at a time to visualize more closely..

doc zoom  % for starters
doc xlim