How to annotate multiple datasets in ListPlots

Question

Frequently I have to visualize multiple datasets simultaneously, usually in ListPlot or its Log-companions. Since the number of datasets is usually larger than the number of

Answer 1

One approach is to generate the plots separately and then show them together. This yields code that is more like yours than the other post, since PlotMarkers seems to play the way we expect when dealing with one data set. We can get the same coloring using ColorData with PlotStyle. Here's the result:

ff = {Sin, Cos, Tan, Cot};
plots = Table[ListLinePlot[ff[[i]] /@ Range[0.1, 10, 0.1],
    PlotStyle -> {ColorData[1, i]},
    PlotMarkers -> i, Mesh -> 22], {i, 1, Length[ff]}];
(* Delete the spurious asymptote looking thingies. *)
plots = DeleteCases[plots, Line[ll_?(Length[#] < 4 &)], Infinity];
Show[plots, PlotRange -> {-4, 4}]