[Chicago-talk] Data for Charting

Mike Raffety MikeRaffety at earthlink.net
Mon May 18 17:03:38 PDT 2009


I've been pretty happy with the flexibility and capability of GD::Graph 
for a number of different projects, have you tried that?

David J. Young wrote, On 5/18/2009 2:26 PM:
> Mongers,
> 
> Does anyone know of a good module to extract/create data suitable for use in a charting module/program? 
> 
> For example:
> 
> The original dataset may look like this from a database query:
> 
> series1:
> Q3-2008  4716
> Q4-2008  1025
> Q2-2009    73
> 
> series2:
> Q3-2008: 1024
> Q4-2008:  445
> 
> series3:
> Q4-2008:  777
> 
> (Note, dataset above is not explicitly how it comes out of database.  This is just to illustrate the gaps in the data that need to be set to zero).
> 
>>From this, I'd like to get this:
> xaxis = qw(Q3-2008 Q4-2008 Q1-2009 Q2-2009);
> line1 = qw([0,4716] [1,1025] [2,0] [3,73]);
> line2 = qw([0,1024] [1,445] [2,0] [3,0]];
> line3 = qw([0,0] [1,777] [2,0] [3,0]];
> 
> If you don't know of any modules, can you recommend any good strategies to do this?
> 
> ydy
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