practicality: (Tax Seaon // Evil!Tatsumi)
I can't tell if it's because Excel is too user friendly, or too non-user friendly, or some strange combination of the two, but it takes forever to figure out how to accomplish some seemingly simple task. Like adding a linear line of best fit to a graph. This is in part because searching the help for 'trend line graph' gives adding a trendline to a graph as the tenth or twelfth hit, rather than, say, the first.

In giving thanks for small miracles, however, the three-month garbage strike has finally ended, which means come Wednesday morning my week-old three bag of mashed yams will be gone, along with some truly sketchy hot-pot leftovers. And my video card, integrated though it may be (look, it was like $200 cheaper, okay?), is still awesome enough to run Halflife Source, which means I have something to do when I actually have time to play games again.

Date: 2007-10-16 07:53 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_62595 (from dreamwidth.org)
I can't even begin to agree with you enough about Excel. The hours I have spent coaxing decent regression graphs out of that thing . . . On the other hand, I've yet to find a program that does make working with graphs easy, so maybe it's just an impossible programming task? (This seems kind of unlikely.)

Date: 2007-10-16 03:07 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
I found Logger Pro to be pretty decent, at least for the sorts of data I use (and it can handle external sensor input), but I've unfortunately lost the username/pw combo needed to download it off the first year physics webpage. Even my graphing calculator handles calculations over data sets and curve fitting better - I can't even figure out how to write my own sigma function for Excel.

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