Re: [matplotlib-devel] quick 'n dirty favorite

[Tom H. (NIH/N. [E] <hol...@ma...>]

ok, this is how i do it
pro'ly could make this better

./plot file.dat

just does the first two columns

needs smarts

Tom Holroyd wrote:
> here's the old way
> 
> 	cut and paste some numbers from a web page
> 	like the number of live births by year
> 	dump it in a file named moo
> 	run gnuplot
> 	and say
> 
> 		plot '/tmp/moo' w l 3
> 
> 	boom
> 	default graph to show friends
> 
> the thing is
> in the new way [python import pylab plot show]
> what's the best default graph
> i wanna say what?
> ipython -c 'readplotfile blah ... parse file ugh ...'
> um
> 
> i need a one liner
> ya know
> 
> find the baby boom
> 
> 1910    2777000       30.1
> 1915    2965000       29.5
> 1920    2950000       27.7
> 1925    2909000       25.1
> 1930    2618000       21.3
> 1935    2377000       18.7
> 1940    2559000       19.4
> 1945    2858000       20.4
> 1950    3632000       24.1
> 1952   3913000       25.1
> 1953   3965000       25.1
> 1954   4078000       25.3
> 1955    4104000       25.0
> 1956   4218000       25.2
> 1957   4308000       25.3
> 1958   4255000       24.5
> 1959   4295000       24.3
> 1960   4257850       23.7
> 1961   4268326       23.3
> 1962   4167362       22.4
> 1963   4098020       21.7
> 1964   4027490       21.0
> 1965   3760358       19.4
> 1966   3606274       18.4
> 1967   3520959       17.8
> 1968   3501564       17.5
> 1969   3600206       17.8
> 1970   3731386       18.4
> 1971   3555970       17.2
> 1972    3258411       15.6
> 1973    3136965       14.9
> 1974    3159958       14.9
> 1975    3144198       14.8
> 1976    3167788       14.8
> 1977    3326632       15.4
> 1978    3333279       15.3
> 1979    3494398       15.9
> 1980    3612258       15.9
> 1982    3680537       15.9
> 1983    3638933       15.5
> 1984    3669141       15.5
> 1985    3760561       15.8
> 1986    3731000       15.5
> 1987    3829000       15.7
> 1988    3913000       15.9
> 1989    4021000       16.2
> 1990    4179000       16.7
> 1991    4111000       16.2
> 1992    4084000       16.0
> 1993    4039000       15.7
> 1994    3979000       15.3
> 1995    3892000       14.8
> 1996    3899000       14.7
> 1997    3882000       14.5
> 1998    3941553       14.6
> 1999    3959417       14.5
> 2000    4058814       14.7
> 2001    4025933       14.1
> 2002    4021726       13.9
> 2003    4089950       14.1
> 2004    4112052       14.0
> 2005    4138349       14.0
> 
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