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that's true, but there's also minimal customization on the python charts - it's just a "plot" command.
by karamazov 13y ago
that's true, but there's also minimal customization on the python charts - it's just a "plot" command.
- starpilot 13y agoThe real advantage to plotting via code isn't just better visual styles, but mass plot generation. The process in Excel: 1. select data 2. select chart type 3. customize chart 4. export chart (for Word doc inclusion) can be very time-consuming repeated with dozens of charts. Each time someone wants to alter the style (a manager's arbitrary decision to use three decimal points instead of two etc.), steps 3 and 4 must be repeated for each chart. Or data get corrected in a way that alters all values and everything needs to be re-exported, and the axes need to be fixed. These "little" items really eat into time as data are massaged and report drafts get reviewed and corrected.
- Hansi 13y agoExcel can do that via VBA.
- mikeyouse 13y agoYou can also save a chart 'Template' in excel to apply the same set of transformations to different data sets with a single click. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/reuse-a-favorite-chart-by-using-a-chart-template-HA010007205.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/reuse-a-favorit...