ploticus: gallery - real world examples

## Gallery - Real world examples | Welcome Gallery Handbook |
| Manual page for Gallery_-_Real_world_examples(PL)

These page contains some real-life examples where ploticus helped to produce paper-based reports, posters, and slides. (Data may have been altered to protect confidentiality.) In this section, GIF thumbnails are given; click on the image to see the ploticus script.

## A sampler of web sites where ploticus is used www.srcc.lsu.edu/monitor_temp_precip.html (weather in southern US). Also: here and here. www.banky.sk/graphs/ (currency information) mierle.com/keir/icqstats msa.istari.com.ar (Argentine elections) www.kweekvijver.com/dehunt/temperatuur.html grinehart.pns.anl.gov/operations gunnadb.home.att.net coglab.psych.purdue.edu/coglab/Usage/usage.html bubo.hmsc.orst.edu/~edstrom/wthr.shtml www.ewranglers.com/ThermLogs/temp.html aspell.sourceforge.net/test www.hillschmidt.de/ploticus/ Last and maybe least is my project, the Mouse Phenome Database, a scientific collection of mouse model phenotype data. Plots are invoked automatically via CGI on demand.

#
Example 1 - Web

mouse
This is a comparison of measurement values of many different inbred strains of mice, for a certain scientific measurement. In the larger plot, two bars (red for female and blue for male) are shown for each strain; the middle tick is the mean, and the bars extend to +/- the standard error. The second, smaller plot is also produced by the same script. It shows a histogram of the distribution of measurement values. More info on producing web-based graphs

#
Example 2a - Web

stock
A stock price / volume display using historical data downloaded from quote.yahoo.com in sreadsheet or .csv format. Here is a variation. More info on producing web-based graphs

#
Example 2b - Web

dmag
A user-contributed example having to do with managed health care.

#
Example 3 - EPS graphic

spence1_rt
A user-contributed scientific example. Ploticus can generate EPS vector graphics that most document and word processing systems accept, and that are appropriate for pre-press work.

#
Example 4 - Paper

timely
In this example, horizontal rangebars are used to compare the timliness of problem resolution between a number of different centers.

#
Example 5 - Slide

td
A slide for presentations. More info on producing slides

#
Example 6 - Poster

(The following layout may not be correct if your browser window is too small)
propbars1
Posters for scientific meetings and presentations require larger size. Color is desirable, but not required. ploticus can generate posters using standard printers and paper. More info on producing posters

#
Example 7 - Paper

distrib
This elaborate example uses both histograms and rangebars to look at the distribution of scores. One data file is used, and ploticus computes the distributions for the histograms, and the medians/percentiles for the rangebars. Histograms are suppressed when N is less than 10.

#
Example 8 - Paper

multiscat
Here, a series of scatterplots are produced from one data file. Each #proc scatterplot has a select option that selects various sets of records. More info on producing paper-based graphs

#
Example 9 - Paper

errbar1
This example compares various quality-of-life attributes for two sets of persons who are in transition from homelessness. It uses categories, and #proc catslide to display pairs centered over the categories. The points, which represent averages, are rendered using #proc scatterplot; the error bars, which show the standard deviation, are rendered using #proc bars. More info on producing paper-based graphs

#
Example 10 - Paper

vermonth
This shows the amount of work done by four different people over time in a production situation. The stacked bars allow individual loads to be seen as well as the combined effort. A 4-month moving average line is also shown. In this example Ploticus takes a file of raw data and performs tabulations on month and person, then plots the tabulated results. Another version of this graph may be seen in bars3. More info on producing paper-based graphs

#
Example 11 - Paper

volunteers
A set of several bar graphs showing number of volunteers over time.
data display engine
Copyright Steve Grubb

Markup created by unroff 1.0, `` `` September 14, 2001.