RE: Handling data flow diagrams and system flow charts

[Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm.  Would your class take kindly to an automated approach.  There's a web
application based on Ruby called Redmine which is a project management
application.  It makes gant charts and things for you automatically based on
time spent on a given project.  I can't make head or tail of them, of
course, but the sighties think it's the best thing since they started
serving beer cold in summer.  Just a thought.

Alex M


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From: lsmithso@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lsmithso@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 6:45 AM
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Subject: Re: Handling data flow diagrams and system flow charts


R us a stats + graphing language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

Neither R or gnuplot seem particularly suitable for producing system
diagrams. 

Daniel Dalton writes:
 > On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:24:40PM +0000, lsmithso@xxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
 > >
 > > Was the OP after some way of making diagrams  accessable or spoken?
 >
 > Yes. Braille is also another option, which I used for ascii graphs in  >
high school from maxima. 
 >
 > Anything more complex I'm not sure how useful that approach is. 
 >
 > The other issue is getting drawings into ascii in the first place...
 > > I'd be very interested to learn how R, gnuplot etc can help to do  > >
that. Any info gratefully received.
 >
 > What is R?
 >
 > Well I used maxima which used gnuplot to develop graphs. So that worked
> pretty well because I could get an idea of the graph with the Braille  >
display. 
 >
 > I think gnuplot is more designed for drawing graphs and functions rather
> than rawing project management diagrams. Some please correct me if I'm  >
wrong though. 
 >
 > Cheers,
 > Dan
 >
 >
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