Exchange x and y axes

[uma bhattParticipant]

I struggled to do this in Data Graph and did not find anything in the manual or online. I have the plot below and I want the sea ice extent on the x axes and the different models on the y axes. I was unable to figure out how to do this though I suspect it is something easy! I can leave it as is for my immediate purpose but it would look better rotated by 90CW. thanks, Uma

[uma bhattParticipant]

Hi All, Right after I submitted (sorry the button must have been pushed twice) I figured out how to switch. Sorry, Uma

p.s. I did have an issue with getting the legend, so I just tricked it and wrote June, July and August using a text box. I was not able to use the variable on the x-axis for my legend.

[dgteamModerator]

Hi Uma!

Very nice looking graphs 🙂

How are you drawing the points?  Are these individual Point commands for each style or are you using a Points command with a Marker scheme?

[uma bhattParticipant]

Hi Datagraph folks,

I use the ‘points’ plot type command three times for my three forecasts (june, july and august). The screen shot shows what the datagraph file choices look like. So I think the answer to your question is yes. The problem I was having was that the legend wanted to use my blank column name in y which represents the different forecast models via consecutive numbers, the # column (but I deleted the # in the column name so it would not show up in the legend). Not sure how clear my explanation is.

Uma

[dgteamModerator]

Uma,

I think I see what your issue was.  Near the bottom of the command there is an option for Legend name.  In that box, there is a blue pill shaped object.  That is called a token.  By default it is connected to the y label.

Click in the Legend name box and delete the token.

Then type the name in that box you want to show in the legend (using the Legend command).

[uma bhattParticipant]

Thanks, got it! I now understand the tokens. I had messed with that box but did not think to type in the column name! It takes time to develop an intuition for software and I am slowly getting there with dg. This plot will be in the August Sea Ice Outlook!

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