How to locate the plotting title above the legend, where the legend is placed "northoutside"?

If the legend is placed "northoutside" (i.e. at the top outside of my plot), how to put the title above that legend?

Answer 1

[Dave B]

You can put a title on the legend, but I think you just want a master title for everything. You can do that by placing your axes in a tiledlayout. Tiledlayout is intended for multiple axes, but it happens to also have a title which works out well as it is placed above the legend. (relevant bits at the beginning and end:

tcl=tiledlayout(1,1);
nexttile


%% This section is just making a random fun plot
t=readtable(fullfile(matlabroot,'examples','matlab','data','BicycleCounts.csv'));
scatter(-t.Westbound,t.Timestamp.Month,20,'filled','YJitter','density','MarkerFaceAlpha',.5)
hold on
scatter(t.Eastbound,t.Timestamp.Month,20,'filled','YJitter','density','MarkerFaceAlpha',.5)
xlim([-1 1]*max(abs(xlim)))
xlabel('Number of Bicycles')
ylabel('Month')
yticks(1:12)
ylim('tight')
xticklabels(abs(xticks))
h=legend('Westbound','Eastbound','Location','northoutside','Orientation','horizontal');


title(h,'Direction'); % Just to see what a legend title looks like
title(tcl,'Bicycle Traffic')

[Israa Ahmed]

Thank you very much, it worked well.