With Wings As Eagles: Craig P. Steffen's Blog

holding a steady(ish) rate

2012 August 13 21:06

I have a compulsion--probably mostly from my scientific training. I like to visualize data. I think that looking at a graph is much more compelling than looking at a series of numbers.

In that vein, I've plotted the number of hours of I've flown per quarter before. The last time I tried to generate a new version of that graph, I couldn't figure out the sequence of gnuplot commands to make the graph work right. I've found it again, so here's the up-to-the day current graph for my flying, and also the commands used to create it.



Here's the gnuplot session used to create that graph: 

gnuplot> set xrange [2006:2013.5]
gnuplot> set yrange [*:40]
gnuplot> set boxwidth .15
gnuplot> plot './hours_flown_quarters.dat' with boxes fs solid title 'flying hours per quarter, past quarters', './hours_current_quarter.dat' with boxes fs solid lc 3 title 'flying hours so far this quarter'