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Charting softwa what does The Economist use?
Any clue of what software the people at The Economist uses to create
charts? I’m wondering whether there is some software out there better than MS Excel that would give better control without the onerous workarounds. |
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Charting softwa what does The Economist use?
You can do pretty well with Excel, and the "onerous" workarounds aren't too
bad once you've become familiar with them. They are generally a bit more onerous in 2007. http://peltiertech.com/WordPress/200...art-economist/ - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Tutorials and Custom Solutions Peltier Technical Services, Inc. - http://PeltierTech.com _______ wrote in message ... Any clue of what software the people at The Economist uses to create charts? I’m wondering whether there is some software out there better than MS Excel that would give better control without the onerous workarounds. |
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Charting softwa what does The Economist use?
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The answer to your question depends on what you mean by "better than MS Excel". What are you looking for: business charts, multidimensional charts, statistical charts, trellis charts, dot plots, parallel coordinate plots? Excel with "workarounds" is fine for business charts. If you have multidimensional data, then you may want to consider R. R is one of the best statistical charting tools, it is free and very powerful. There is an Excel add-in that lets the user run R from within Excel. Here's a brief introduction to R's charting. http://processtrends.com/TOC_R.htm R is developed and supported by thousands of statisticians worldwide. They provide high quality packages that add functionality to the basic R package. You can get the R base system and all packages free from the Comprehensive R Archival Network (CRAN) http://cran.r-project.org/ . New packages and charting tools are added to the R system on an ongoing basis. Here's a link to an R Graphics Gallery http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ Paul Murrel has a very good book on R Graphics. This link shows you the charts from his book and the R code needed to build them. http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epa...rgraphics.html Hadley Wickham has an R package ggplot/2 that is quite powerful. http://had.co.nz/ggplot2/ Are you involved with high dimension data? If so, the GGobi may be what you need. http://www.ggobi.org/. There is a R package for Ggobi http://lookingatdata.com/. If you plan to use advanced charting extensively, then R offers you much more promise than Excel. Post back or contact me at my website if you would like more information. Kelly O'Day http://processtrends.com "Del Cotter" wrote in message ... On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, in microsoft.public.excel.charting, said: Any clue of what software the people at The Economist uses to create charts? I'm wondering whether there is some software out there better than MS Excel that would give better control without the onerous workarounds. I think they use drawing packages like Adobe Illustrator to work the results of a graph program (which is probably Excel) into something that looks prettier. In other words, it's an even more onerous workaround for them, but they're prepared to pay art staff to do it all day, in order to have something that looks nice for the magazine. As you haven't got a magazine editor's budget, the place to look for good-looking graphs without excess manual labor is away from the magazines rather than toward them. -- Del Cotter NB Personal replies to this post will send email to , which goes to a spam folder-- please send your email to del3 instead. |
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