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From: sciamanda@edinboro.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Graphing S/W info WANTED
Message-ID: <3776@edinboro.edu>
Date: 24 May 91 14:55:57 GMT
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In article <943@ssc.UUCP>, tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes:
> I am looking for some MSDOS software that will allow me to do
> graphing where the points on the X axis are dynamic.  What I mean
> is, if I graph events with most software (Lotus 123 for example)
> the usual way to represent events is to have fixed time intervals
> (say "Quarterly Earnings") along the x axis.   What I need to
> do is take samples of quantities at different times, and have
> them plotted so that the points on the x axis are proportionally
> spaced.  This is for my diabetes management.  I have a glucometer
> for measuring blood glucose.  During the day I might measure
> glucose at 7:14am, 10:55am, 12:01pm, 3:18pm and 8:00pm.  If
> I measured it always on the hour, my search for software would
> be easier....I could just use Lotus, and create hourly cells.
> 
> So ideally I could enter all of these times and glucose levels,
> and then define the limits of the X axis however I wanted (1 day,
> 3 weeks, 2 years....) and then have each test proportionally
> spaced according to time.  It would also be nice to graph
> moving averages.
> 
> Anyone know how to do this?  Know of any shareware programs
> for this?  Someone told me that MS Excel could do this, but
> I don't want to spend several hundred dollars.
> 
> Please email me any advice at tad@ssc.UUCP or 3288544@mcimail.com
> 
> Thank you!  I hope this will help me manage my diabetes better.
> 
> 
> Tad Cook
> Seattle, WA
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> Phone: 206/527-4089 
> MCI Mail: 3288544 
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> or, tad@ssc.UUCP

You can do this with Lotus!

Just choose the XY graph option!