"The problem here is that it's hard to define "continuity" when all you
have as input is a series of independent events. One thing that we
could
do is to define a "time window" that makes events that are more distant
than a certain time period be considered disconnected.. I prefer this
better than additional markup on the input data file.
Thoughts?"
The additional markup in the data file could be as simple as a blank line
between chunks of data.
I agree with your idea of a "time window" it would allow a user/programmer to
determine what is a continuous set. Another suggestion; continuity could be
implicitly "broken" by separate "loads" into an event source. If i were to:
plot.loadText("data1.txt", ",", eventSrc);
plot.loadText("data2.txt", ",", eventSrc);
this would result in a plot of these two sources but there would be no
connecting line between the last of data1 and the first of data2.
In addition i have seen that people are having trouble with cluttered axis
labeling, a simple solution would be the ability to explicitly set an interval,
be it seconds, min, hours, days, etc. etc. I would also think that text
overlap could be detected and the labels could be culled, staggered, or
something so they dont overlap, same goes with the showing of values. if you
have a couple plots that are close and maybe cross at times, the labels that
show up should not be overlapped either.
thx for listening.
-ChazZ
ever wonder if a word, when misused so many times, could lose all of its
meaning?
now thats ironic...
----- Original Message ----
From: Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: General List <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:49:39 PM
Subject: Re: geometry max and min
ChazZ S wrote:
>
> I am not sure if it is supposed to work this way but it appears that
the
> geometry settings are selective about max and min. if just one of
your
> data points sinks below the min or above the max, they are ignored.
I
> would like to "zoom", if you will, in on parts of the plot. I
figured
> that i could do this by constraining the geometry. I think it should
> strictly adhere to the max and min. if an auto-fit is what someone
> wants, they would not use max and min.
Yes, many people have complained about this "feature"... so I think
I'll
change the behavior.
> Another question. Is is possible to display non-continuous data
without
> the endpoints being connected? Do i put something special in the
data file?
No, not at the moment.
The problem here is that it's hard to define "continuity" when all you
have as input is a series of independent events. One thing that we
could
do is to define a "time window" that makes events that are more distant
than a certain time period be considered disconnected.. I prefer this
better than additional markup on the input data file.
Thoughts?
--
Stefano Mazzocchi
Digital Libraries Research Group Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
E25-131, 77 Massachusetts Ave skype: stefanomazzocchi
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA email: stefanom at mit . edu
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