[CentralOH] Simple XY Graphing

[Mark Erbaugh]

Austin,

Thanks.  I think my graphing needs are really simple. No need for anything fancy. I think a simple image (bmp or png or gif).  Right now the rest of the application runs w/o Javascript.

Mark

On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Austin Godber wrote:

> You could generate the data in python and then use a javascript
> library to generate a chart.
> 
> http://dygraphs.com/
> 
> Or any of the things here http://delicious.com/godber/javascript+chart
> 
> The benefit is you could do more dynamic things than with an image
> (reporting values while hovering over the points).  A disadvantage of
> course is that static images are readily supported across browsers.
> 
> This
> 
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Thomas Winningham <winningham at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For fully customized and accurate scatter plots for statistics, I
>> think Eric's suggestion can't be beat on Python. I've played with a
>> lot of other libraries for just really basic and general drawing, and
>> those include PyCairo, PySVG, Python Imaging Library (just manipulate
>> pixels) and then OpenGL things such as PyGame, NodeBox, etc ...
>> PyCairo and PySVG are great for print, but the fastest way to get a
>> bitmap is maybe PIL?
>> 
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Mark Erbaugh <mark at microenh.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Dec 3, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Eric Floehr wrote:
>>> 
>>> Mark,
>>> I'd use matplotlib.  The book "Matplotlib for Python Developers" has examples for dynamically generating graphs within Django and Pylons.  I'm sure there are also examples on the web.
>>> If you want to use a client library, so you can have hover-overs, etc. or ajax... I use the javascript plotting library Highcharts http://www.highcharts.com/  it's free for non-commercial use.
>>> -Eric
>>> 
>>> Eric,
>>> Thanks.  I don't know anything about it, but I wonder if Matplotlib is overkill for what I need.  I don't need the hover-overs (at least not now).
>>> Mark
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