Creating a graph suitable for publication in a scientific journal

[dgteamModerator]

Thanks for everyones response 🙂

I like what Jordan said — ” It is important to remember that DataGraph may look like a spreadsheet program, it is not a spreadsheet. It straddles the line between database and spreadsheet.”

We posted a new example file that might help … go to File/Online Examples… in DataGraph.  If you search on SEM, you will see that and some other files that have these calculations.

Here the output of the Pivot command is plotted …

 

Seems like the overall the message is — DataGraph can do a lot of intricate graphs/calculations.  The specific steps to a particular graph will depend on your data format and whether or not you want to do the calculations in DataGraph.  The benefit of using the program for calculations is that you can update the data in one place and all your graphs will be up to date.

If you are still stumped, email us a data file to our help email (available under the Help menu in the program).

(If you’re willing to take the plunge into the program, the resources are here to help you accomplish your goals!)

[jordanParticipant]

This is definitely the best way to do it…and the one concern I had, repeated data, DataGraph handles very elegantly. I was concerned what would happen if you had repeated x and category values with different data:

 

But Datagraph uses the average of the three values in the pivot table and propagates the standard deviation. Very nice!

 

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by jordan.
• This reply was modified 4 years ago by jordan.

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