Re: Graphing in PSPP

[John Darrington]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:59:01PM -0400, Faramir wrote:
     John Darrington escribi??:
     > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:41:54PM -0700, hippie dream wrote:
     >      
     >      So is there no way to actually modify the graphs then? I can 
produce them
     >      using the text output driver but then they appear as PNG files as 
you said.
     >      At that point I can't really change the axes or titles or really do
     >      anything. 
     > 
     > PSPP's primary purpose is statistical analysis.  If you're looking for
     > a general purpose plotting/data visualisation  program I suggest that
     > you try gnuplot.
     
       Well, I am very noob using statistical analysis, but at university, we
     use SPSS, and we always have to generate both tables and graphics, so I
     had got the feeling about graphics are a key tool for statistical
     analysis...

I agree.  An important part of statistical analysis is the ability to
represent data in a way that assists visualisation, and graphs are one
obvious way to do that.   But I get the feeling that "hippie dream" is 
interested in generating plots with fancy fonts, 3D effects etc (for
which gnuplot is ideal), rather than to understand a trend in some
data.   Of course it's always possible to use PSPP to transform your
data into a form which can be used by gnuplot (or some other plotting
tool). 

      Off course, I don't complain about lacking the edit graphics
     feature, as long as it is in the "to do" list...

Yes.  It's on the list.   If you feel like helping out, post a message
to the pspp-dev mailing list.

J'
     

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