Tikz
A gallery of 298 TikZ drawings for teaching statistics and creating scientific illustrations.
What is Tikz?
Tikz Gallery is a collection of 298 TikZ drawings created primarily for teaching statistics and scientific illustration. It provides ready-to-use vector graphics for academic publications, presentations, and educational materials, with many figures focusing on statistical concepts like regression, confidence intervals, and experimental design.
Statistics educators, academic researchers, and LaTeX users who need high-quality, reproducible vector graphics for papers, presentations, and teaching materials.
Offers a large, curated collection of statistically-focused TikZ figures with complete source code, saving users time compared to creating complex graphics from scratch while ensuring consistency and quality.
Overview
Galley of Tikz drawings.
Use Cases
Best For
- Creating statistical diagrams for academic papers
- Preparing lecture slides with custom vector graphics
- Teaching statistical concepts with visual aids
- Generating reproducible figures for LaTeX documents
- Learning TikZ through practical examples
- Developing scientific illustrations with precise control
Not Ideal For
- Projects requiring vector graphics in web-friendly formats like SVG without LaTeX compilation
- Users who prefer graphical drag-and-drop editors over coding in TikZ
- Teams needing dynamic or interactive visualizations for live presentations
- Applications outside academic statistics, such as business infographics or engineering schematics
Pros & Cons
Pros
With 298 pre-made TikZ figures, users save significant time compared to creating complex statistical diagrams from scratch, as evidenced by the diverse examples like bias-variance plots and regression visualizations.
Many figures are specifically designed for pedagogy, covering key concepts such as confidence intervals, experimental design, and causal diagrams, making it ideal for educators and researchers.
All figures are provided as .pgf files with explicit TikZ code, allowing easy modification and reuse, and the included TIKZ_PREAMBLE.pgs file ensures consistent compilation across projects.
A dedicated webpage displays all figures for quick browsing, helping users identify relevant graphics without manually compiling each file.
Cons
The collection is heavily biased towards statistics education, with limited coverage of other fields like computer science diagrams or general-purpose illustrations, reducing its utility for broader use cases.
Users must have a working LaTeX environment and TikZ knowledge to compile and edit figures, which poses a barrier for those unfamiliar with these tools, as the README assumes familiarity with editors like ktikz.
The README provides only basic file listings without tutorials or explanations of complex code, and the project shows no signs of active development, potentially missing newer TikZ features or fixes.
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