Post #2463659
2026-04-06 16:24 UTC
@solonovamax@tech.lgbt @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt @multioculate@mastodon.social
Thanks y'all. I guess the catch with me is that I likely will fail at writing anything from scratch, that would do the job with either GraphViz, Python and/or GNUplot.
Cuz creating the graphs is like 1% of my work schedule, hence, there's only so much time and energy available, rendering learning what it takes for GraphViz or GNUplot clearly out of my scope. If there'd be something that I could just tweak (a bit) to read data structured close enuf to what I have … :neocat_o_o:
Yes I admit being just a lame ass qualitative empirical sociologist and not a clever data analyst :neocat_shy:
I really do wonder why there's nothing out there that just lets you paste csv style data and renders a graph of your choice.
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@multioculate@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 16:41
@BabyFn0rd@tech.lgbt For stuff like "take these columns from a CSV and make me a bar chart", Gnuplot is probably pretty accessible from a "copy-and-paste example, change column names" perspective. Compared to Python, it's a very dedicated tool -- sort of like a command-line just for making graphs.
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@solonovamax@tech.lgbt 2026-04-06 17:15
@BabyFn0rd@tech.lgbt @ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt @multioculate@mastodon.social wait actually I meant gnuplot not graphviz I always mix the two up istg