[Haskell] 2-D Plots, graphical representation of massive data

Ketil Malde ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no
Sat Aug 28 05:20:03 EDT 2004


Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net> writes:

>> 2) display result of the analysis (pie charts, histograms, plots) 

> If you don't need to interact with the display, the simplest solution
> is to generate graphics files. Personally, I would use PostScript

I would output to Gnuplot...

> as I'm reasonably familiar with it and the Ghostscript interpreter
> is freely available.

...for basically the same reasons.  It's also on a higher level than
PS, you can output data on a presentation-independent format, and it's
easy to change the type of plot or other presentation details later.

-kzm
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