Suggestions for graphing software...
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
I use the pirates favorite... R[^] RStudio is nice IDE envirionment for R that makes it easier to use. You can import and export Excel and csv file easily. and there are plenty of support communities where you can find how-tos and examples. RStudio – Open source and enterprise-ready professional software for R[^] [Edit] - And it's open source.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I'd use matplotlib and numpy/pandas in the python world. numpy is a lower level high performance array structure. pandas is a higher level data frame structure built on top of numpy matplotlib is a graphing library that will take data frames and render a huge variety of visualisations. Use an IDE like spyder and it's all quite easy and interactive. And all free.
Thanks, but that's a bit like reinventing the wheel. I just have this bunch of data and need to display it in a graph outside the application, as a once-off. I was a bit gobsmacked that Excel couldn't do it. Somewhere there has to be something where you establish the X and Y axes of the graph from the max and min of the data, and then plot all the X,Y points from the dataset. The data collection points on the X axis are non-linear, but I need to display them along a linear X axis.
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I use the pirates favorite... R[^] RStudio is nice IDE envirionment for R that makes it easier to use. You can import and export Excel and csv file easily. and there are plenty of support communities where you can find how-tos and examples. RStudio – Open source and enterprise-ready professional software for R[^] [Edit] - And it's open source.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Thanks, but I really, realy, realy do not want to write one more line of code just to display the data just one time.
So, what your really, realy, realy looking for is some CODZ PLZ URGNTZZ? :laugh:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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So, what your really, realy, realy looking for is some CODZ PLZ URGNTZZ? :laugh:
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Nah! I don't need no CODZ PLZ URGNTZZ. Don't really like the stuff. I am actually having poached salmon in a lemon sauce tonight. :laugh:
Is that with real lemons?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
I just plugged two sets of random numbers into Excel (2013) and produced a proper scatter plot. I followed these steps to get the trend line: trendline example. Is your data set too big for Excel?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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Is that with real lemons?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Chris C-B wrote:
Nah! Furniture polish - it's cheaper.
:laugh: plus if you're grilling, you get the added bonus of that flame thrower touch of excitement, the kids will love it!
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
Scilab seems like the way to go. Several of my scientific co-workers use that for dealing with data sets doing all kinds of stuffs that physics does with data, including non-linear axes.
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
I don't have a solution to offer, but I'm wondering if you could give some usable example data?(rigged-up or otherwise) I certainly recognize that this simple need has arisen more times than I can remember. It's time to dabble in tool-building. This kind of issue is a lot like when I only want to make a simple chicken-scratch sketch using old-school Paint but the system I happen to be using only has a major drawing program that takes too-long/forever to load up. Or I just want to type a sentence and a bloated word processor starts loading. Great to have some of the suggestions - checking out GNUPlot and some of the free-or-inexpensive options.
Pete K.
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Thanks, but I really, realy, realy do not want to write one more line of code just to display the data just one time.
So, how was the salmon? ;) Anyway I got 'yer Codez. It's like 6 lines of code.
# Install & Load Library
if (!require("readxl")) install.packages("readxl")
library("readxl")Choose & Read Excel file, the 2 denotes the desired sheet number.
my_data <- read_excel(file.choose(), 2)
Extract data from the desired columns. RStudio will provide drop-down with column names.
Ydata <- my_data$Column_With_Ydata
Xdata <- my_data$Column_With_XdataPlot data
plot(Ydata, Xdata)
As with any code you can get as fancy as you want, but for a one time look see...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
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… preferably free, but cheap is good too. All I want to do is set up an X axis, set up a Y axis, and plot a line-scatter graph. It seems Excel can't do this with non-linear X values on a linear X axis - or I can't coerce it to do so. Either way, I have given up struggling with it, to the point where I am prepared to drop some valuable beer vouchers on the problem. If anyone has any suggestions, I would be very glad to hear them.
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Thanks for that - it looks useful, but I need something that I can import Excel or CSV data into. I have a LOT of data! :sigh:
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I just plugged two sets of random numbers into Excel (2013) and produced a proper scatter plot. I followed these steps to get the trend line: trendline example. Is your data set too big for Excel?
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
The scatter graph works fine for X-Y points, but the data collection points are equally spaced on the graph, where they are, in fact, non-linear to the point of being random. They are closely spaced at the start of the X-axis, becoming sparser further along - but they are essentially just points where data had been collected, and adhere to no mathematically defined function. I want to impose a linear X-axis, say from 0 to 100, and have the graph points plotted along that linear axis. If I just use the X-Y data in a plot, then the X-axis is divided into equidistant points for the X value and the Y value plotted above it. If I add a third column of data to represent the X-axis, Excel accepts it but then draws two graphs, one for the X values and one for the Y values. If it were not for the 11,000 odd data points, I would use a piece of graph paper...
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Scilab seems like the way to go. Several of my scientific co-workers use that for dealing with data sets doing all kinds of stuffs that physics does with data, including non-linear axes.