From: hadley wickham <h.wickham@...>
Date: 2007-07-15T16:16:13+09:00
Subject: Re: graphing/charting application

> Is there something in gems that'd suit my needs?  I'd be perfectly happy
> with something that just takes a series of numbers and strings as input
> and dumps an image file.  My preference would be for a 3D-looking chart
> (with those faux-3D verticle bars in many a PowerPoint slide, for

You should really try to avoid those faux-3D bars - they make the
graph much hard to read.

If you want to learn more about the basics of good graph design
junkcharts, http://junkcharts.typepad.com/junk_charts/, is a good
place to start.

Hadley