[ale] [OT] How Do You Make a Good Charts?

[James Sumners]

I'm not really seeing anything to "chart" (i.e. plot) in your
exercise.png. What are you trying to measure? I suppose you could
measure activity versus duration. That is, assign "Type of Exercise"
to your y-axis variable and "Duration" to your x-axis variable.

Brushing up on statistics might benefit you. A quick search turned up
this online stats book -- [1].

[1] -- http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Fellas,
>
> This is a really silly question, but I honestly don't know the answer. I'm
> using Google Docs to keep track of my health (blood pressure, food log,
> exercise, etc). I want to incorporate charts. For the life of me, I can't
> figure out how my data should be organized in order to create the charts.
>
> The blood pressure chart worked, but when I tried to create one for
> exercise, it didn't. I don't know why and all my google searches end up with
> step by step instructions on how to make a chart via Excel. Not "How do I
> organize my data, in the first place, so that a chart can be created!"
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-blood-pressure.png
> http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-exercise.png
>
> --
> Marc Ferguson



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