On Tuesday 22 September 2009 04:42:07 am Joop Beris wrote:
Hello listmates,
Recently we have done a poll around the office. Now, I am supposed to process the results and show it all off with tables and graphs, etc. Now, I can do this by hand, of course. However, I wouldn't be much of an IT person if I did...
So, does anyone know of a piece of software under Linux that could do this sort of thing? I've searched the repos, but I haven't been able to find one supplied with openSUSE. I am running 11.1, with KDE 4.3. Any way to do this in OpenOffice perhaps?
Any tips are welcome.
Regards,
Joop
Joop, Depends on what format your data is in now. Generally, for poll results, it is just a matter of summing/dividing the votes for question 1, option A, option B, question 2, etc.. and then displaying them in a way that is meaningful for you. Even if you don't want to use OO for the plots and charts, it might not be a bad idea to at least get your data into calc so that you can manipulate it and export it in just about any format you will need for whatever you decide to use. If you just want to use the IT skills and parse the data from the command line with bash/sed/awk and then produce graphs from that, then spline, graph and plot are great cli tools for that purpose. (shot example cut and pasted from my notes): The following example demonstrates the use of calc to build a X Y string to pass to the curve fitting utility 'spline' and output the graph data file test.meta. GNU 'plot' is then called to display a graph on the screen: ans="" \ for ((i=1;i<=10;i++)); do \ ans="$ans $i $(calc -p $i^3-$i^2) " \ done \ echo $ans | spline | graph > test.meta \ plot -T X test.meta plot has good print handling as well, you'll have to check the man page for that. Otherwise, I can't think of a simpler way to chart, plot, sum, graph, etc. than to use OO. Most other solutions tend to be invent it yourself. Now I have seen some software for analyzing "web-polls", etc., but I don't have a package name handy. You'll just have to google that. Good luck with the project. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org