Centering group plot figure

Question

Can anyone show me how to center this group plot? I've tried every trick in the tex.stackexchange book of similar posts (e.g., How to center large figures in LaTeX and how to fix short justified lines?).

\documentclass[]{article}
    \usepackage{pgfplots, alphalph}
    \usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\footnotesize\sffamily]
      \begin{groupplot}[
         group style={group size=3 by 2, vertical sep=70pt,
    ylabels at=edge left
    },
          view={0}{90},
          width=5.2cm,
          height=5.2cm,
      scale only axis,
      scaled ticks = false,
      tick label style={/pgf/number format/fixed},
      title={My title},
      xlabel={x-axis},
      ylabel={y-axis}],
          unbounded coords=jump]
        ]
        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 1}}]       
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 2}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 3}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 4}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 5}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

         \end{groupplot}

    \end{tikzpicture}
  \end{figure}



\end{document}

score 5 · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-24T11:10:13.203

Your plots are too wide. You may try to put 2 plots in a row instead of 3. However, there is always this box techniques that can be used.

\documentclass[]{article}
    \usepackage{pgfplots, alphalph}
    \usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\makebox[\textwidth]{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\footnotesize\sffamily]
      \begin{groupplot}[
         group style={group size=3 by 2, vertical sep=70pt,
    ylabels at=edge left
    },
          view={0}{90},
          width=5.2cm,
          height=5.2cm,
      scale only axis,
      scaled ticks = false,
      tick label style={/pgf/number format/fixed},
      title={My title},
      xlabel={x-axis},
      ylabel={y-axis}],
          unbounded coords=jump]
        ]
        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 1}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 2}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 3}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 4}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 5}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

         \end{groupplot}

    \end{tikzpicture}
    }
  \end{figure}




\end{document}

enter image description here

If in case, you want to center the last two plots, you may use a suitable width for all plots (so that you know how much to shift) and use xshift like

\nextgroupplot [xshift=1.2in,title={\it{Title 4}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [xshift=1.2in,title={\it{Title 5}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

enter image description here

With table:

\documentclass[]{article}
    \usepackage{pgfplots, alphalph}
    \usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}
\usepackage{filecontents}
 \begin{filecontents*}{mydata.dat}
  A   B      
  1    4
  2    6
  3    9
  4    2
  5    3
  \end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\makebox[\textwidth]{%
    \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\footnotesize\sffamily]
      \begin{groupplot}[
         group style={group size=3 by 2, vertical sep=70pt,
    ylabels at=edge left
    },
          view={0}{90},
          width=5.2cm,
          height=5.2cm,
      scale only axis,
      scaled ticks = false,
      tick label style={/pgf/number format/fixed},
      title={My title},
      xlabel={x-axis},
      ylabel={y-axis}],
          unbounded coords=jump]
        ]
        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 1}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    table[x=A,y=B]{mydata.dat};

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 2}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    table[x=A,y=B]{mydata.dat};

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 3}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    table[x=A,y=B]{mydata.dat};

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 4}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    table[x=A,y=B]{mydata.dat};

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 5}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    table[x=A,y=B]{mydata.dat};

         \end{groupplot}

    \end{tikzpicture}
    }
  \end{figure}




\end{document}

and with

        \nextgroupplot [xshift=1.2in,title={\it{Title 4}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    table[x=A,y=B]{mydata.dat};

        \nextgroupplot [xshift=1.2in,title={\it{Title 5}}]
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    table[x=A,y=B]{mydata.dat};

enter image description here

Can you please show how to use the table environment in place of coordinates? For some reason, this code does not work (yet) with table {} Please just add a new section to your answer, do not delete anything you have written, it is very useful. — warship, Apr 24 '15 at 05:36

warship · Answer 2 · 2015-05-01T16:20:24.090

Another alternative: add \hspace*{-4cm} (adjust how many centimeters you want to achieve a nice centering). For example:

\documentclass[]{article}
    \usepackage{pgfplots, alphalph}
    \usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}
\hspace*{-4cm}
    \begin{tikzpicture}[font=\footnotesize\sffamily]
      \begin{groupplot}[
         group style={group size=3 by 2, vertical sep=70pt,
    ylabels at=edge left
    },
          view={0}{90},
          width=5.2cm,
          height=5.2cm,
      scale only axis,
      scaled ticks = false,
      tick label style={/pgf/number format/fixed},
      title={My title},
      xlabel={x-axis},
      ylabel={y-axis}],
          unbounded coords=jump]
        ]
        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 1}}]       
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 2}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 3}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 4}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

        \nextgroupplot [title={\it{Title 5}}]      
\addplot[black, thick, mark=o, only marks]
    coordinates {
        };

         \end{groupplot}

    \end{tikzpicture}
  \end{figure}



\end{document}

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Centering group plot figure

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