[Tex/LaTex] Aligning group plot titles horizontally

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I'm trying to figure out why my plot titles are not horizontally aligned. I tried several sources but could not find an option to control title alignment. Below image is what I get. As you can see Kingsbury and Northcote are not on the same level.

This is my latex code

\documentclass[preview]{standalone}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepgfplotslibrary{groupplots}
\pgfplotsset{compat=newest}
\usepackage{caption,subcaption}

\begin{filecontents*}{cossim.csv}
SAE,Kingsbury large,Kingsbury very small,Northcote large,Northcote very small
0.01,0.999968942313215,0.999999495420309,0.99996093797435,0.999999519021115
0.02,0.999871138637117,0.999998360123856,0.999845179891564,0.999997875670629
0.03,0.999719561898977,0.999995711779553,0.999650464340874,0.999995691207506
0.04,0.999501451940394,0.999992937485087,0.999380356722573,0.999991943604557
0.05,0.999209403163912,0.99998965609147,0.999026294939076,0.999988236057768
0.06,0.998864174035993,0.999986379082264,0.998602080363523,0.999982264001694
0.07,0.998482447668418,0.999979693720795,0.998095945546854,0.999975630444692
\end{filecontents*}

\begin{document}

\pgfplotsset{
    axis background/.style={fill=mygrey},
    tick style=mygrey2,
    tick label style=mygrey2,
    grid=both,
    ytick pos=left,
    tick style={
        major grid style={style=white,line width=1pt},
        minor grid style=mygrey3,
        tick align=outside,
    },
    commonstyle/.style={
        draw=white,
        mark=*,
    },
    midystyle/.style = {
        yticklabels={,,},
        ytick style={draw=none},
        ylabel = {},
    },
    midxstyle/.style = {
        xtick style={draw=none},
        xlabel = {},
    },
    cossimstyle/.style = {
        ymin = 0.998,
    },
}

\definecolor{mygrey}{RGB}{229,229,229}
\definecolor{mygrey2}{RGB}{127,127,127}
\definecolor{mygrey3}{RGB}{240,240,240}
\definecolor{cLarge}{RGB}{31,120,180}
\definecolor{cVerySmall}{RGB}{253,191,111}

\begin{tikzpicture}%

    \begin{groupplot}[%
        group style={%
            group name=QuantileError,%
            group size= 2 by 1,%
            horizontal sep = 0.1cm,
        },%
        width=0.3\textwidth,
        height=0.4\textwidth,
        legend cell align={left}, %
        legend style={draw=white, fill=mygrey3},%
        every axis label/.style={font=\small},%
        ticklabel style = {font=\tiny},%
        yticklabel style={/pgf/number                           
            format/.cd,fixed,precision=4,zerofill,/tikz/.cd},%
        x tick label style={rotate=90, anchor=east},
        scaled x ticks=false,
        xticklabel style={/pgf/number                           
            format/.cd,fixed,precision=2,zerofill,/tikz/.cd},
        ]%

        %%%%% ROW1 Start %%%%%
        \nextgroupplot[%
            commonstyle,
            midxstyle,
            cossimstyle,
            legend to name=mainplot,%
            legend style={legend columns=4},%
            ylabel={Cosine similarity},% 
            title=Kingsbury,
        ]%
        \addplot[color=cLarge] table [x={SAE}, y={Kingsbury large}, col     
            sep=comma]{cossim.csv};%
        \addplot[color=cVerySmall] table [x={SAE}, y={Kingsbury very small}, 
        col sep=comma]{cossim.csv};%

        \nextgroupplot[%
            commonstyle,
            midystyle,
            midxstyle,
            cossimstyle,
            title={Northcote},
        ]%
        \addplot[color=cLarge] table [x={SAE}, y={Northcote large}, col  
            sep=comma]{cossim.csv};%
        \addplot[color=cVerySmall] table [x={SAE}, y={Northcote very small},    
            col sep=comma]{cossim.csv};%
    \end{groupplot}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

Best Answer

As I mentioned in my comment, change your groupplot settings to:

\begin{groupplot}[%
    group style={%
        group name=QuantileError,%
        group size= 2 by 1,%
        horizontal sep = 0.1cm,
    },%
    width=0.3\textwidth,
    height=0.4\textwidth,
    legend cell align={left}, %
    legend style={draw=white, fill=mygrey3},%
    every axis label/.style={font=\small},%
    ticklabel style = {font=\tiny},%
    yticklabel style={/pgf/number
        format/.cd,fixed,precision=4,zerofill,/tikz/.cd},%
    x tick label style={rotate=90, anchor=east},
    scaled x ticks=false,
    xticklabel style={/pgf/number
        format/.cd,fixed,precision=2,zerofill,/tikz/.cd},
    title style = {text depth=0.5ex}                       % <--- added
   ]%

and you will get desired result:

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Another answer with better spacing between subplots:

\documentclass{standalone}

\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usetikzlibrary{pgfplots.groupplots}

\begin{document}

\pgfplotsset{
  cycle list={
    {black,thin},
  },
  /pgf/text mark/style={mark=none},
}

\begin{tikzpicture}
  \begin{groupplot}[
      group style={
        group name=my plots,
        group size=1 by 4,
        vertical sep=2pt
      },
      footnotesize,
      xmin=0, xmax=90,
      ymin=0, ymax=7
.0,
      %xtick={0,5,...,100},
      ytick={0,0.5,...,7.0},
      minor x tick num=4,
      minor y tick num=4,
    ]

    \nextgroupplot[ytick={0,1,...,7}]
    \addplot coordinates { (0.1,6.9) (44.5,4.8) (89.9,0.01) };

    \nextgroupplot[xmin=35,xmax=70,ymax=1.7, xticklabels=\empty, yshift=-1em]
    \addplot coordinates { (35.1,1.6) (55.2,1.3) (69,0.01) };

    \nextgroupplot[xmin=35,xmax=70,ymin=0.5,ymax=2.1, xticklabels=\empty]
    \addplot coordinates { (35.1,1.8) (69,1.6) };

    \nextgroupplot[xmin=35,xmax=70,ymax=1.1]
    \addplot coordinates { (35.1,0.75) (69,0.75) };

  \end{groupplot}
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

enter image description here

[Tex/LaTex] Centering group plot figure

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

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