Chapter 13. Basic techniques of graphical analysis
This chapter covers
- Investigating relationships
- Using logarithmic scales
- Representing point distributions
- Visualizing ranked data
- Organizing your work
This chapter and the next largely take gnuplot and its features for granted and instead concentrate on applying gnuplot to specific goals that commonly arise when graphing data. At the same time, I’ll take the opportunity to show you how certain tasks can be accomplished using gnuplot’s features. In this chapter, I’ll discuss some basic activities that are generally useful in graphical analysis; the next chapter will cover some more specialized tasks in greater depth.
When faced with a new data set, two questions usually dominate. The ...
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