On 5 Jun 2002, Ben Barrett wrote: > Matt used TeX to create the PDF's we would've seen if the projector had > been liked by his iBook... like he said, he's been happily using that > instead of creating PowerPoint presentations for the various talks he > travels for. I guess it depends on what end result you're attached to > or hoping for. Is it the "look" that just doesn't do it for you, or the > process? > > benb I do have unrealistically high expectations for my own output, obviously any charts and graphs i produce will be able to serve unedited as examples for the next edition of "Visual Display Of Quantitative Information". ;-)
in reality I'm interested in finding a fairly rapid response toolkit that I can use interactively to asymptotically approach "that which is not chartjunk" and the pipeline starts getting longer when you throw in things like LateX2pdf > > PS - some data formats are a problem, but have you looked at scilab? > or octave? both are quite powerful. octave at least has been on my agenda for a while as something to explore, but right at the moment I'm more focused on things like DEM and other gis data. GRASS gis is something I'm probably going to rebuild my home workstation around in another week or so. http://grass.ibiblio.org/gdp/index.html and then spend the next year or so mastering. although I'm seeing a workflow that goes something like this 1. collect data from n sources 2. collate and normalize data sets <== set to same units and scale 3. for correlation in DesiredResult correlation.crunch(data): 3.a. this step may be distributed to multiple machines 3.b and use various software engines 4. render output 5. iteratively repeat until something useful is produced 6. write up results 6.a collate result output into .pdf documents 7. publish, fame, fortune, change the worldview > > On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:12, Larry Price wrote: > > I'm looking for a good toolkit to do data analysis > > and present the results as .pdf > > > > I'm looking for a toolset that will allow me to join diverse data sets > > in different formats (everything from .xls to netCDF aceDB and .dwx > > formats) > > > > So any suggestions you have are welcome, > > this is for a long term project, > > generally plan on mangling the data ( also known as statistical analysis) > > on server side, but want to have as platform independent a means > > of presenting conclusions as possible. > > > > More I learn about .pdf better I like it, > > the TeX to .pdf stuff I've seen hasn't really set my > > brain on fire, but if you know of any really good resources in that > > direction I'd like to hear them. Too bad .dvi hasn't conquered the > > universe, but the best can't be the enemy of the good (or something like > > that). > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi)
