Freeware/shareware graphing program

Zombiemambo

I need to make a demograph for class that displays the average life rate of men and women who were born and died before 1915, and people who were born and died after 1915. I have a total of 100 dates to input, and I need a line graph for each one (for a total of four). Does anyone know of a program that will let me input that much data? Thanks.

falsedef

A spreadsheet (openoffice calc, excel) can handle 100 dates easily. If you're looking for heavy duty lifting, there's FreeMat if you know how to use matlab.

Zombiemambo

Hmm, found something called 'Sphygmic Software SpreadSheet.' It says it behaves a lot like Excel, but I don't know how to use Excel. I just need a stupid line that goes from left to right and moves up and down according to the data I put in it. How do I do that?

VThornheart

Ahh, perhaps we can be of service.

First thing's first... you'll need to record the data in an Excel spreadsheet, or import it. We can't make the Excel Graph unless we have it in excel first.

What format do you have it in right now? Let us know, and we can help you figure out how to get it in Excel. (If it's in comma delimited format for example, you're pretty much set)

Anyways, I'm going to dinner with the Mrs. at the moment, so if no one else responds I'll be back in an hour or so. Post these answers if you can:

1) What format do you have the data in now? (on paper, in a file... if in a file, what kind of file)
2) Do you have Microsoft Excel?

Crashtard

If you need an excel type program you can download OpenOffice. It's basically an open source version of Microsoft Office. It's not as fancy looking but it usually does the job well enough, and you can save into Microsoft Office formats (word, excel, etc). Hope that helps.

Edit: Do it in excel might not be the answer you're wanting, but it's probably going to be the easiest way to get it done. I don't really know of any free programs that will make line graphs.

Zombiemambo

VThornheart wrote: »

Ahh, perhaps we can be of service.

First thing's first... you'll need to record the data in an Excel spreadsheet, or import it. We can't make the Excel Graph unless we have it in excel first.

What format do you have it in right now? Let us know, and we can help you figure out how to get it in Excel. (If it's in comma delimited format for example, you're pretty much set)

Anyways, I'm going to dinner with the Mrs. at the moment, so if no one else responds I'll be back in an hour or so. Post these answers if you can:

1) What format do you have the data in now? (on paper, in a file... if in a file, what kind of file)
2) Do you have Microsoft Excel?

Don't have Microsoft Excel, I'm using some Excel clone or something similar to it. The data is on a notepad, sitting in my room. I have no idea how to do any of it.

Crashtard

This is a how-to on graphing in excel:

http://www.ncsu.edu/labwrite/res/gt/graphtut-home.html

That might be able to help you. I just typed Excel Line Graph into google; there seemed to be lots of things out there to look at.

Zombiemambo

Alright, cool, thanks.

Marty81

The learning curve is a bit steeper, but R is free and awesome for statistical processing and all things related, including making pretty line graphs, histograms, scatter plots, etc.

http://www.r-project.org/

Rotting Meat

R is awesome and definitely something you want to stay away from if you're simply doing one graph of simple data once. I'm slowly working through learning it and it's kicking my ass.

Zombiemambo

Well, crud. I don't really have the time to learn how to do a spreadsheet, I thought it would be easy to do.

VThornheart

Ah, go with that link that Crashtard gave. It's the simplest way to do it... I was going to walk you through pretty much those exact same steps.

You can do almost the exact same thing in OpenOffice too. Grab it from http://www.openoffice.org/ and follow those steps in the link he gave above and you'll be good.

Sadly, if it's just in notepad you may have to manually re-enter the information... but follow those steps, it's easy enough to do.

Zombiemambo

I'm sorry, I forgot to thank you guys for helping me out. So thanks, I'll get this finished up soon.

VThornheart

No worries! Glad we could be of service.