RE: Excel Graphics

2001-01-30 Thread Simon, Steve, PhD
Graham S wants some advice on using Excel for technical and scientific graphing. Not to be too contrarian, but one option you might consider is stop drawing graphs. Obviously your management does not consider high quality graphs as being worth investing in. This may sound like I am a traitor to

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-30 Thread Robert J. MacG. Dawson
Shareef Siddeek wrote: > > Then, what is the use of EXCEL? EXCELlent question... Joking apart, it can be a useful tool for preparing a downloaded dataset for loading into a statistics program. -Robert Dawson = I

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-29 Thread Shareef Siddeek
right way. This is because EXCEL is more popular and easy to use. Cheers. Siddeek David Heiser wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Shareef Siddeek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:53 PM > Subject: Re:

RE: Excel Graphics

2001-01-29 Thread Rodney Carr
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Excel Graphics Jon, > The absolute best advice concerning the use of Excel for > graphics (or for statistics for that matter) is: DON'T! > > The _majority_ of graph-types available in Excel should never > be used for any pur

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-29 Thread dennis roberts
i think, if i might be allowed to speak for jon, he would say that it is a good SPREADSHEET package ... that was what it was designed for ... add ons to make it also a statistical package ... are a different matter it is sort of like having ms word ... where it has this add on feature of

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-29 Thread dennis roberts
if you can use excel to do what you need doing and, it does not lead to any serious (tweaking?) complications fine but, what happens if you want one of your colleagues to do something a little different ... like make a x,y plot ... where you have both male and female data points separatel

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-29 Thread Shareef Siddeek
Then, what is the use of EXCEL? Siddeek Jon Cryer wrote: > The absolute best advice concerning the use of Excel for > graphics (or for statistics for that matter) is: DON'T! > > The _majority_ of graph-types available in Excel should never > be used for any purpose as they produce mislea

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-29 Thread myotis
Jon, > The absolute best advice concerning the use of Excel for > graphics (or for statistics for that matter) is: DON'T! > > The _majority_ of graph-types available in Excel should never > be used for any purpose as they produce misleading graphs -- mainly > false third dimensions that can only

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-29 Thread Jon Cryer
The absolute best advice concerning the use of Excel for graphics (or for statistics for that matter) is: DON'T! The _majority_ of graph-types available in Excel should never be used for any purpose as they produce misleading graphs -- mainly false third dimensions that can only serve to hide imp

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-28 Thread myotis
Jay > One piece of advice I received on this topic was: Use DeltaGraph. Even > 4.0 (ca 1997) offers more options, and display control. > Sorry if that isn't exactly what you were looking for The problem, as always is money. Otherwise I agree that something like Deltagraph is the solutio

Re: Excel Graphics

2001-01-27 Thread Jay Warner
One piece of advice I received on this topic was: Use DeltaGraph. Even 4.0 (ca 1997) offers more options, and display control. Sorry if that isn't exactly what you were looking for Jay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but can anyone point me > towar

Excel Graphics

2001-01-27 Thread myotis
Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but can anyone point me towards any web sites that provide advice on using Excel for technical/scientific graphing. I am not sure why exactly, but I find the graphs produced by Excel, compared to S-Plus or Statistica, to look out of place in a technic