On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Devon McCormick <devon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you plot it as a vertical bar chart? i.e. > > Category 1 XXXXXXXXXXXXX > Category 2 XXXXXXX > Category 3 XXXX > Category 4 XXXXXXXXXX > etc. > > Yeah. Andrew gave me the same idea. Yet, as I wrote in my previous post, reading histograms rotated isn't very natural to most people, unfortunately. However, I acknowledge that it is one of the cheapest and feasible tricks. > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:01 PM, June Kim (김창준) <junea...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Ric Sherlock <tikk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Another idea is not to show every label so as to provide more room for > >> the ones you are showing. This works fine for numbers or dates, but > >> not so well for disparate categories. > >> > >> > > Yeah, I thought about it, but it doesn't apply in this case. The xlabels > > are disparate categories sorted by their frequencies. > ... > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
