graphing lifelines

[E. J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman]

(crossposted to sci.math)

I'm looking for a tool which will take a dataset of tuples indicating
the year of birth and death of a person:

(1872, 1950, "Sri Aurobindo")
(1821, 1910, "Mary Baker Eddy")
(1831, 1891, "HP. Blavatksy")

And graph them out, in bars, annotating them with the person's name.

A simple spreadsheet would've worked, but they seem to start from
zero. Thus, I would only be able to indicate the span of life (by
subtracting death year from birth year).

[Jordan]

There are several different modules for graphing in Python which you
can find easily by searching, but to my knowledge none of them will
simply take in a set of tuples and turn them into what you want,
although I am sure that it is certainly possible to program a app that
could do that for you...

If you can't/don't want to program such an app and you don't have many
data points, you could probably just cook one up using Photoshop/GIMP/
MSPaint, or whatnot (although clearly I could understand not wanting
to do that for 100's of points)...
sounds like an interesting project an auto lifeline maker that takes
in data points...hmm

[Larry Bates]

E. J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman wrote:

(crossposted to sci.math)

I'm looking for a tool which will take a dataset of tuples indicating
the year of birth and death of a person:

(1872, 1950, "Sri Aurobindo")
(1821, 1910, "Mary Baker Eddy")
(1831, 1891, "HP. Blavatksy")

And graph them out, in bars, annotating them with the person's name.

A simple spreadsheet would've worked, but they seem to start from
zero. Thus, I would only be able to indicate the span of life (by
subtracting death year from birth year).

Certainly a "Hi-Tech Shaman" can whip something up to do this, right?

-Larry

P. S. you will need look for something like a high-low graph or do something
custom. I've used ReportLab's Graphing module quite effectively. All depends
on what format you want the output to be in.

[Brock Massel]

Google this: "drawing graphs with dot" dotguide.pdf
Look at page ~40ff.

Perhaps a simple script to generate graphviz input. Then let those
excellent tools do the heavy lifting.

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(crossposted to sci.math)

I'm looking for a tool which will take a dataset of tuples indicating
the year of birth and death of a person:

(1872, 1950, "Sri Aurobindo")
(1821, 1910, "Mary Baker Eddy")
(1831, 1891, "HP. Blavatksy")

And graph them out, in bars, annotating them with the person's name.

A simple spreadsheet would've worked, but they seem to start from
zero. Thus, I would only be able to indicate the span of life (by
subtracting death year from birth year).
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[E. J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman]

On Jul 15, 3:38*pm, Larry Bates <[e-mail]`wrote:

>
Certainly a "Hi-Tech Shaman" can whip something up to do this, right?

Yes, well E.J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman. I'm Terrence Brannon,
stating that fact :)

So, maybe EJ could whip up such a thing :)

I like the sci.math answer I got the best and will go with that
approach -
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...254718d4cbfeb#

[Larry Bates]

E. J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman wrote:

On Jul 15, 3:38 pm, Larry Bates <[e-mail]`wrote:

>Certainly a "Hi-Tech Shaman" can whip something up to do this, right?

Yes, well E.J. Gold is the Hi-Tech Shaman. I'm Terrence Brannon,
stating that fact :)

So, maybe EJ could whip up such a thing :)

I like the sci.math answer I got the best and will go with that
approach -
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...254718d4cbfeb#

Hey you're the one using his email address ;-).

-Larry