Friday, February 16, 2007

Math at the Movies

My job requires me to make a graph from time to time. For one of my editors, I can draw the graph and I can usually count on some sort of comment about how it looks like it was drawn by a serial-killer 10-year-old.

My other editor wants to see a computer-made graph, and that typically requires using the excrutiatingly limited Microsoft Chart. (I think it's called that. It's hard not to repress the name.)

Anyway, I recently found this great graph program online. It's meant for little kids, but it makes great simple graphs in a hurry. To demonstrate, here's a graph of the way I've watched the 17 movies I've seen so far this year. (Yeah, I may need a better hobby.)

5 comments:

OldLady Of The Hills said...

Gee, that's a wonderful graph Carli...! It is so pretty, too!
You have seen some fabulous movies from that listr over on the side. Of the older ones I can see "Goodbye Girl", I just love! Richard Dreyfuss is truly brilliant in that film...Terribly funnt! And I love "Crimes And Misdeanors" Very interesting film...Love "Two For The Seasaw" too....And more....(lol)

Here from Michele this early morning....Now, I guess I should go to sleep...It's getting on to 4 am soon...!

Anonymous said...

Don't you think that blog post is a little TOO graphic?

Percentage of time I spent digesting the information: 10
Percentage of time I spent staring at the pretty colors hoping they would start to revolve: 99

(Yes, I'm a child of the 60s).

Pat said...

I did a computer course and one of the modules was on graphs and I had great fun with pie charts. Sadly it has now all disappeared into the misty emptiness of my brain. Pity!
Michele sent me.

Anonymous said...

Cool graph, I'm glad you shared the link because that can be useful information to have! You just never know when you might need a graph for something!
Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.

carmilevy said...

I'm an Excel whore: I live for its graphing capabilities.

Still, when I start DREAMING in graph-mode, I know I'm spending too much time with the numbers.

Must. Shut. Excel. Down. Now...