Due to personal circumstances, my editing activities will be decreasing over the next several months. July, 2014

SVG Bar Chart Generating Program[edit]

Recently (Feb 2012) I've started to upload some bar chart images to Wikipedia commons. These were generated by a small Python program that's still under development (by myself, of course). The program works as follows: You define a dictionary object that contains parameters to build the graph. One of the parameters is the name of a csv file that contains the data to be plotted. Then you call a function, passing it the dictionary of parameters. It builds the graph as an svg file, and opens the file on a new tab in your browser if you want.

Yes, matplotlib is far more capable, but it has some issues. First, the svg files it generates are about 7 times as large (in spite of the comments and pretty indentation in my own file). Secondly, I can regen the graph easily if either a) I change the data or b) I change the parameters defining the graph. Thirdly, the generated svg file is straightforward enough to edit with a text editor if you need to.

Let me know if you might be interested in using it.