GraPL tutorials

GraPL brings typographical excellence to simple analytical graphics. This set of tutorials will take you through the basics of making a simple chart, then you can explore the options needed to reproduce one of the all-time greats of political graphics, and then you can just play with some pretty 3D surfaces generated for you using GraPL’s built-in calculator.

If you are especially interested in making graphs for the Internet, you should also check out the final section which shows you how to add simple JavaScript actions to charts output in the VML format.

A Simple Newspaper Graphic

• Basic Interface Elements
• A Simple Barchart
• Axes, Colours and Headings
• Tidying Up
• Saving as a Template

Making the Playfair Chart

• Playfair – an all-time Classic Chart
• Entering Some Data
• Making a Linegraph
• Setting up the X-axis
• Setting the Y-axis and Margins
• Noting the Historical Events
• Exporting and Printing

A Fuel-Consumption Calculator

• Setting up Your Data
• Plotting the Raw Timeseries
• Averages and Smooths

Playing with Numbers

• Making an Egg
• Generating a Surface

Multiple Charts and Summaries

• Multiple Series and Duplicate Axes
• Multiple Charts and Trellis Plots
• Linking Datasheets
• Summarising Data Graphically

Active Graphics for the Web

• Adding HTML Jumps to Data
• Hints, Tips and JavaScript Handlers