Re: [libreoffice-users] what's the best way to make charts of spreadsheet data

On 4-1-2019 18:54, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Dave Howorth schrieb am 02-Jan-19 um 18:12:
> > [..]
> >
> > My spreadsheet data is in columns. Column A is the dates and column B
> > is the times. Then ten columns of humidity data and eleven columns of
> > temperature data. There are currently just over 5000 rows of samples.
> >
> > Making the chart was extremely slow. Every time I changed the Name of a
> > line of the chart I had to wait whilst it cycled through several steps
> > to make the change. Initially when I removed some empty columns from
> > the data range, it took an age to do so. etc.
>
> Each data item produces an object, which is selectable in edit mode of 
> the chart. Your data produce 5000*(10+11)=105000 objects. That cannot 
> be fast.
>
> What is the purpose of the chart? You do not need 105000 objects to 
> illustrate something.
>
> With 5000 items in x-direction a lot of them will be on top of others. 
> My screen has only 1920 dots width and yours?
The fact that a screen has only (a limited) number of pixels, has 
NOTHING to do with how many items are used, or can be used,  in a graph.

Maybe the user has a A0-plotter to print this graph?

This should still be possible with software like LibreOffice, or the 
should kill the option to create graph's....


just 2 cents


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