ways I have graphed data

[bolson]

In the last few years I have gone through phases of: coercing data and setting up displays using gnuplot; writing my own script code to emit SVG and do all the drawing and layout myself; writing script code to coerce the data into JSON to be interpreted by javascript code to draw in a <canvas> element.

Maybe just because it's new, I am particularly amused by this last method. I've applied it to a couple different pages now, and the results look good. It may be more portable than SVG, since android phone browser can render <canvas> but not SVG. (iPhone can do SVG)