Specifying sequence of colors in ListPlot

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I am trying to figure out how to use Mathematica's color schemes with discrete data. For example, I have a list of time series in the form

s={{{1946,1},{1947,2},{1948,3}},{{1946,-2},{1947,-1.8}}}

and so on; there are about 30 series of varying length. If I plot/join/overlay these series using ListPlot, is there a way to instruct Mathematica to select colors for each plot by taking evenly spaced colors from a ColorFunction returned by ColorData (e.g., "Rainbow")?

How would I combine this with a directive to make each plot Thick?

ListPlot[s,Joined->True,PlotStyle->{Thick,???}]
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1 Answers

9
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Imagine this is your data - a ragged list of 30 lists of varied length:

data = Table[.5 k + RandomReal[1, RandomInteger[{8, 14}]], {k, 30}];

Is it what you need?

ListPlot[data, Joined -> True, 
         PlotStyle -> Thread@{Thick, ColorData["Rainbow"] /@ Range[0, 1, 1/29]}]

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