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What to do if you have too much data?

Posted on: February 4, 2008 5:00 PM, by Greg Laden

Austringer has an interesting, even enviable, problem. He needs to make an X-Y data plot, but he has 5.2 million data points.

... So he did us all a favor and went through a series of tests using different data, including the famous "Matlab" (see: Is There a Black Box in Your Research Methodology) and discovered that there were problems with all of them. Then he came across the GRI Graphing Language. It worked.


Here's a couple of examples of plots GRI can produce:

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