Have Rep, will trade for graph construction

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by CraigD

Borrowing a trick from imdb.com's ratings graphs, I've attached Turtle's data imbedded within table tags in a small html file. Anyone with patience and a text editor can edit it to add/remove rows, change values, or fiddle with its format.

What a unique view! It keeps the general line of the rise & fall without obscuring the exact values, and the Moon phase tags are clear without confusing the graph. I likey!!!

So I can add the rest of my data right to that html somehow?

Many thanks.

[CraigD]

Originally Posted by Turtle

So I can add the rest of my data right to that html somehow?

Yes.

Just save a copy of TEMP.html somewhere convenient, then open the file in your favorite text editor (notepad.exe works for me).

Each pair of rows is represented by a couple of lines of html like this

 <tr><td>5/29/2006<td nowrap=1><img src=http://i.imdb.com/blue.gif width=199 height=5>&nbsp;199
 <tr><td><td nowrap=1><img src=http://i.imdb.com/neutral.gif width=547 height=5>&nbsp;547

To add a couple of lines, just copy these 2 lines to wherever in the table you want the new lines, then edit the “5/29/2006” to the new date, change both “199”s to the new US number, both “547”s to the new world number.

To get rid of lines, just delete them.

You can play around with the table, changing things to see the effect. And, of course, you can insert the “<table> … </table>” into another html document, allowing it to be preceded or followed by text, graphics, have a background graphic, or anything else that can be done in html, which is purtnear anything.

It’s handy to open the file in a browser window, and after making an edit, hit “reload” to redisplay it. Not quite like a fancy WYSIWYG html editor, but pretty close.

What makes an html table word are basically these 3 tags (formally called elements): <table>; <tr> (table row); and <td> (table data, or cell). What makes this table a graph is the <img> tag. Its width attribute specifies how many pixels wide its displayed. Its src attribs just refer to a couple of 1-pixel graphics – the width and height attribs stretch the graphic to the specified size. The <td> tag’s nowrap attrib prevents the browser from allowing the number following it to be wrapped to a new line, which would ruin the graphs appearance, and the &nbsp; (non-breakable space) character inserts a space that the browser will always honor. I should probably have but one after each date, to keep the bar from crowding them.

There are a lot of other things that can be done with tables. W3C HTML has links to the latest specification, tutorials, and other stuff related to html.

You may notice that I didn’t use </td> or </tr> end tags. These tags have been optional since the early days of html – if you don’t use them, the browser assumes that the next <td>, <tr>, or </table> ends the previous <tr> or <td>.

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by CraigD

Yes.

Just save a copy of TEMP.html somewhere convenient, then open the file in your favorite text editor (notepad.exe works for me).

Each pair of rows is represented by a couple of lines of html like this

 <tr><td>5/29/2006<td nowrap=1><img src=http://i.imdb.com/blue.gif width=199 height=5>&nbsp;199
 <tr><td><td nowrap=1><img src=http://i.imdb.com/neutral.gif width=547 height=5>&nbsp;547

To add a couple of lines, just copy these 2 lines to wherever in the table you want the new lines, then edit the “5/29/2006” to the new date, change both “199”s to the new US number, both “547”s to the new world number.

To get rid of lines, just delete them.

Shweet! I followed directions & I have this much working so far. A deep genuflection in your direction Craig! Of to work on data entry, and here's my first few edits. I changed the file name in case I made an irrecoverable error.

PS Rats! It looked good a minute ago & now the lines are gone! I'm on it like a boil on a butt!

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by C1ay

Have you checked the National Earthquake Information Center for your missing data? I think you'll find a wealth of information there to support your endeavor

Acknowledged. It is a stub of that page that I collected the data from. I'll poke around to see if they have an archive, but the maps are updated at least every hour & I only took data once a day and generally between 10am & Noon.

Here's the exact links:
World Map >>> USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

US Map >>> USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » Latest Earthquakes in the USA - Past 7 days

As soon as I get all my data in I (we) can compare current status with our plot(s).

Speaking of the graphing, when I double-click on my edited html file in its folder on disk, it opens as a web-page and everything is correct; however, when I attached it above and open the attached version, the bars have disappeared from the graph!

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by Turtle

...I'll poke around to see if they have an archive, but the maps are updated at least every hour & I only took data once a day and generally between 10am & Noon.

Here's the exact links:
World Map >>> USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » Latest Earthquakes in the World - Past 7 days

US Map >>> USGS Earthquake Hazards Program » Latest Earthquakes in the USA - Past 7 days

First, I am trying to match the Moon phase to the quake activity as a correlation because of geologist Jim Berkland's claim it is a strong predictive aid.

Second, in posting the above I realized the map counts are for the last 7 days, so this may account for the graph peaks at the Quarters rather than Full/New where I expected peaks. I'll have a better picture when I get all 8 months of my data input.

Thanks again all you contributing graphers.