izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) (04/17/91)
We just received a couple of copies of Improv. We were excited and impressed by what it can do. Then, my colleague can't find an obvious way to make a histogram of a column of values. There's not even a word "histogram" in the index of the manuals. He claims that Quattro can do it quite easily, and is upset that there is no easy way of doing it with Improv. After all this trouble of creating a GREAT spreadsheet, why such a blatant omission? Does anybody know how? A simple example worksheet via NeXTmail would be greatly appreciated. I will summarize. Izumi Ohzawa [ $@Bg_78^=;(J ] USMail: University of California, 360 Minor Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone: (415) 642-6440 Fax: (415) 642-3323 Internet: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu NeXTmail: izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (04/18/91)
In article <1991Apr17.050649.20680@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@mindseye.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) writes: >There's not even a word "histogram" in the index of >the manuals. >why such a blatant omission? > Why indeed? In fact, I was lead to a different conclusion: since they wouldn't make such an omission, they must simply not call it a histogram. Flipping through the manual till I saw what looked like a histogram, I found they called it a ``bar graph''. Look under ``bar'' in the index, and it will direct you to page 8-8, which tells you how to many types of bar graphs. There you will also find the word ``histogram''. One could argue that ``bar graph'' is in fact more descriptive than ``histogram''; I think their only fault is not including it in the index. However, when you look for ``histogram'' in the index, you naturally hit ``horizontal bar graph'' in its absence, which could have tipped you off. -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (04/19/91)
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