On Jun 4, 6:30 pm, merr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ethan Merritt) wrote:
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> <valdem...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Is there any gnuplot command to create horizontal rectangles ?
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> ???
> How can you tell a horizontal rectangle from a vertical rectangle?
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> There is a strong convention in scientific presentation that the
> independent variable is plotted on the horizontal axis (usually X),
> and dependent variables are plotted against the vertical axis (Y).
>
> Of course there are specific cases that call for some other layout,
> but it is rare to see horizontal histograms.
Who has never seen this example:
http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html
This sort of thing is not at all rare in newspapers and
magazines, or indeed any publication where page
layout conventions trump scientific conventions.
Dan
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