[ale] [OT] How Do You Make a Good Charts?

[Stephen R. Blevins]

I would also counsel breaking your exercise spreadsheet into separate 
sheets, one for each kind of exercise, and make a chart for each. 
Otherwise, you're comparing apples to oranges: walking vs Tae Blo vs 
Flag Football.  Hope this helps.

Stephen R. Blevins
srblevi at worldnet.att.net


Marc Ferguson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com 
> <mailto:james.sumners at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I'm not really seeing anything to "chart" (i.e. plot) in your
>     exercise.png. What are you trying to measure? I suppose you could
>     measure activity versus duration. That is, assign "Type of Exercise"
>     to your y-axis variable and "Duration" to your x-axis variable.
> 
>     Brushing up on statistics might benefit you. A quick search turned up
>     this online stats book -- [1].
> 
>     [1] -- http://wiki.stat.ucla.edu/socr/index.php/EBook
> 
>     On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Marc Ferguson
>     <marcferguson at gmail.com <mailto:marcferguson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > Hi Fellas,
>      >
>      > This is a really silly question, but I honestly don't know the
>     answer. I'm
>      > using Google Docs to keep track of my health (blood pressure,
>     food log,
>      > exercise, etc). I want to incorporate charts. For the life of me,
>     I can't
>      > figure out how my data should be organized in order to create the
>     charts.
>      >
>      > The blood pressure chart worked, but when I tried to create one for
>      > exercise, it didn't. I don't know why and all my google searches
>     end up with
>      > step by step instructions on how to make a chart via Excel. Not
>     "How do I
>      > organize my data, in the first place, so that a chart can be
>     created!"
>      > Thanks for any advice.
>      >
>      > http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-blood-pressure.png
>      > http://www.fergytech.com/images/google-docs-exercise.png
>      >
>      > --
>      > Marc Ferguson
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> Thanks James. As simple as the concept is, I didn't think to search for 
> "statistics". I'll brush up on that. As for the exercise worksheet, I 
> was looking to measure level of activity. How many instances of 
> "walking" am I doing and probably in another chart, the average duration 
> of each type of exercise.
> 
> -- 
> Marc Ferguson
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