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Dan <luecking@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>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).
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>> Of course there are specific cases that call for some other layout,
>> but it is rare to see horizontal histograms.
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>Who has never seen this example:
> http://www.censusscope.org/us/chart_age.html
FWIW, here's the gnuplot equivalent, cut-and-pasting the
data from that URL.
http://skuld.bmsc.wa****ngton.edu/people/merritt/gnuplot/census.html
I know of that style as a "back-to-back" histogram.
There was recently discussion on the developers mailing list
about the possibility of implementing a more general form of
this sometimes called a "violin plot", e.g.
http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/RGraphGallery.php?graph=43
Drawing such a set of curves in gnuplot would not be hard,
but working out a standard way of getting the relevant data
into the program would be non-trivial.
>This sort of thing is not at all rare in newspapers and
>magazines, or indeed any publication where page
>layout conventions trump scientific conventions.
Surely you are not appealing to newspaper/magazine standards
as a touchstone for the presentation of scientific data!
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Ethan A Merritt
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