Decent Graphs from Spreadsheet data?

[Alex Beamish]

I'll add another vote for Gnuplot - it's old school, but it's very, very
flexible, and the performance is terrific.

Alex
 On Jan 26, 2013 11:24 PM, "Matt Price" <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi Eveyrone,
>
> Whew, I just spent about 2 hours grappling with Libreoffice Calc
> trying to get some graphs from spreadsheet data.  That was painful!  I
> was helping my duaghter with her homework, and she wanted scatter
> plots that graphed 2 columns against each other, but with the color of
> the dots dictated by the value of a third column (THe data is here, in
>  google docs form:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aqhzp2yOOf0zdGc1MHozTm1XblZTdWVLN2JkcE4ySUE
> ; she wante "Time of Call" graphed against "Response Time in Minutes"
> with datapoints colored for "Company Name").  Now, This seems to me
> like it ought to be straightforward to do, but instead we were
> searching for ever through complex GUI's & ended up with charts that
> were very hard to print out properly (eventually we saved them as
> JPEGS and printed from gimage -- that worked fine).  Does anyuone
> havea better solution than libreoffice?  Or, do you have a link to a
> really good guide to the chart features in libreoffice?
>
> Either of these would be so helpful!  Thanks,
> Matt
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