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Creating pie charts?
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Feb 16, 2004, 12:37 PM
 
Looking for something that can do detailed pie charts for my marketing module school project.

Tried Powerpoint's graph thingy and it's better somewhat than Apple's Keynote.

But I'm looking for something better.

Any clues?

Thanks!
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Feb 16, 2004, 01:15 PM
 
Do you have Excel? You can use excel to make the pie chart and then import that into PowerPoint. Excel makes some good pie charts and it's more flexible than the PPT tool.
     
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Feb 16, 2004, 04:59 PM
 
You can make pie charts in R, but that's probably overkill for your needs.
     
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Feb 16, 2004, 10:58 PM
 
ChartSmith looks like a nice program. I've been playing with the demo/evaluation version for a couple of days now, and it looks good.

Not sure how it'll do for very sophisticated charting/graphing, but for stuff that I do (basic medical statistics) I think it'll fit the bill nicely. Plus, unlike Excel, its a Cocoa application and takes full advantage of OS X's Quartz features. Good pie charts - lots of features including 3D (thickness), 3D tilt (along 3 axes), rotation (clock face), drop shadows, etc., all rendered via Quartz.
     
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Feb 17, 2004, 02:36 AM
 
? Erm, no.
     
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Feb 17, 2004, 04:06 AM
 
Nope, Omnigraffle doesn't handle charts as far as I can see... unless I'm wrong :[
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Feb 17, 2004, 04:08 AM
 
Originally posted by Cadaver:
ChartSmith looks like a nice program. I've been playing with the demo/evaluation version for a couple of days now, and it looks good.

Not sure how it'll do for very sophisticated charting/graphing, but for stuff that I do (basic medical statistics) I think it'll fit the bill nicely. Plus, unlike Excel, its a Cocoa application and takes full advantage of OS X's Quartz features. Good pie charts - lots of features including 3D (thickness), 3D tilt (along 3 axes), rotation (clock face), drop shadows, etc., all rendered via Quartz.
Yeah. ChartSmith looks nice. Will try it out and post back here
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