<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, James Sumners <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm not really seeing anything to "chart" (i.e. plot) in your<br>
exercise.png. What are you trying to measure? I suppose you could<br>
measure activity versus duration. That is, assign "Type of Exercise"<br>
to your y-axis variable and "Duration" to your x-axis variable.<br>
<br>
Brushing up on statistics might benefit you. A quick search turned up<br>
this online stats book -- [1].<br>
<br>
[1] -- <a href="http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook" target="_blank">http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook</a><br>
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Marc Ferguson <<a href="mailto:marcferguson@gmail.com">marcferguson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi Fellas,<br>
><br>
> This is a really silly question, but I honestly don't know the answer. I'm<br>
> using Google Docs to keep track of my health (blood pressure, food log,<br>
> exercise, etc). I want to incorporate charts. For the life of me, I can't<br>
> figure out how my data should be organized in order to create the charts.<br>
><br>
> The blood pressure chart worked, but when I tried to create one for<br>
> exercise, it didn't. I don't know why and all my google searches end up with<br>
> step by step instructions on how to make a chart via Excel. Not "How do I<br>
> organize my data, in the first place, so that a chart can be created!"<br>
> Thanks for any advice.<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-blood-pressure.png" target="_blank">http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-blood-pressure.png</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-exercise.png" target="_blank">http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-exercise.png</a><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Marc Ferguson<br>
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</blockquote></div><br>Thanks James. As simple as the concept is, I didn't think to search for "statistics". I'll brush up on that. As for the exercise worksheet, I was looking to measure level of activity. How many instances of "walking" am I doing and probably in another chart, the average duration of each type of exercise.<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Marc Ferguson<br><br><a href="http://www.fergytech.com">www.fergytech.com</a><br><a href="http://www.digitalalias.net">www.digitalalias.net</a><br><br>"When life gives me lemons... I make Linuxaide, hmm good stuff!"<br>
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