User talk:Analoguni
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[edit] Open-sourcing the money supply graph.
Hello,
I happened across the money supply graph you made. Looks great! Is that a gnuplot graph? If so, it would be great if you could include the gnuplot source file and the data file you used to generate the graph, so that when it needs to be updated, someone won't have to recreate all that work. Here's an example.
Thanks for considering it.— ʞɔıu 08:18, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
- So I'm now thinking it's probably from gnumeric, but the point still stands.— ʞɔıu 10:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm not the original creator of that graph. The original image is in wikipedia commons here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Components_of_the_United_States_money_supply.svg The user who uploaded that image is "El T". I don't know what was used to create it. I decided to edit the file because I wanted it to include "currency". Unfortunately, I have not found an easy way to edit svg files so I added the "currency" data by hand with a text editor. It took me a while to do, heh. What I did was saved the .svg file to my hard drive then made a copy of it. I edited the copy with a text editor and previewed it with both the konqueror web/file browser and with firefox. The reason I used 2 browsers to preview it was because svg format stuff is still under development so neither konqueror nor firefox can view the image correctly, but each one can view a different aspect of the image. It's a complicated process, I know, but I liked the way this image looked and I think the svg format can become the standard for data charts like this one so I figured I'd spend a little time working with it to see what I can do with it. After playing around with it, I figured out how to edit the legend so I decided to change the original legend which was spread out through the image, and put the 4 references into the one legend box at the top left. I also wish there was an easy way to make graphs like this but I haven't found one yet. OpenOffice.org Draw can supposedly create svg images from spreadsheet data but I tried this and it doesn't work too well yet. OpenOffice.org is still developing that ability so I guess it's considered experimental for now. I've played around with gnuplot before but I haven't yet figured out an easy way to make graphs with it. I can generate files by hand but that takes too much time. In conclusion, I haven't found an easy way to make graphs like this yet but I think there will be a way in the future. In the meantime, I'm mostly going to stick to OpenOffice.org Calc and create gif and jpeg images. I'm interested in making svg images instead so if you can give me some links and info on easy ways to generate them I would greatly appreciate it. :) Analoguni (talk) 21:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
