graphing lifelines
E. J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman
I'm looking for a tool which will take a dataset of tuples indicating
the year of birth and death of a person:
(1872, 1950, "Sri Aurobindo")
(1821, 1910, "Mary Baker Eddy")
(1831, 1891, "HP. Blavatksy")
And graph them out, in bars, annotating them with the person's name.
A simple spreadsheet would've worked, but they seem to start from
zero. Thus, I would only be able to indicate the span of life (by
subtracting death year from birth year).
Jordan
can find easily by searching, but to my knowledge none of them will
simply take in a set of tuples and turn them into what you want,
although I am sure that it is certainly possible to program a app that
could do that for you...
If you can't/don't want to program such an app and you don't have many
data points, you could probably just cook one up using Photoshop/GIMP/
MSPaint, or whatnot (although clearly I could understand not wanting
to do that for 100's of points)...
sounds like an interesting project an auto lifeline maker that takes
in data points...hmm
Larry Bates
Certainly a "Hi-Tech Shaman" can whip something up to do this, right?
-Larry
P. S. you will need look for something like a high-low graph or do something
custom. I've used ReportLab's Graphing module quite effectively. All depends
on what format you want the output to be in.
Brock Massel
Google this: "drawing graphs with dot" dotguide.pdf
Look at page ~40ff.
Perhaps a simple script to generate graphviz input. Then let those
excellent tools do the heavy lifting.
(crossposted to sci.math)
E. J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman
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> Certainly a "Hi-Tech Shaman" can whip something up to do this, right?
>
Yes, well E.J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman. I'm Terrence Brannon,
stating that fact :)
So, maybe EJ could whip up such a thing :)
I like the sci.math answer I got the best and will go with that
approach -
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/browse_thread/thread/09b254718d4cbfeb#
Larry Bates
Hey you're the one using his email address ;-).
-Larry