Comments on: Step Chart Without Risers

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:51:10 +0000

Vikas -

You misunderstand. There is no source code. This is a manual technique that you have to apply yourself.

By: vikas

vikas — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:18:52 +0000

i want Step Chart Without Risers view source code

By: Win Smith

Win Smith — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:20:40 +0000

Thanks Jon. After playing with it some more, I found I’d rather use the error bars as well. Thanks for tip!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:27:56 +0000

Win -

Yeah, I’ve tried that. I was never happy with how it looked. And deep down, I knew it wasn’t right.

By: Win Smith

Win Smith — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:51:11 +0000

Jon,

Thanks for your work on this.

Have you ever tried using a scatter plot with the “-” symbol as the marker? If your x range is sufficiently dense, you can get decent-looking horizontal steps.

This is an easy approach that I just used. The downside is that the steps might be slightly wider than they should be, but that’s not a problem for my current project.

Best,

Win

By: derek

derek — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:25:30 +0000

demaws, sometimes the data becomes a story about how big the instantaneous rises and falls were, and when they occurred. When that happens, it may be better to have a graph that's all risers and no steps, like a sort of time-lined waterfall graph. (a step graph without risers is a sort of quantitative Gantt chart) More subtle intermediate cases might benefit from risers and steps that have different formatting, as recommended in Edward Tufte's 1983 classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. The last chapter I think.