Re: [Gretl-users] Could we please make the default graphing style nicer?
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Artur T. wrote:
Dear all,
this is a proposal which I have had in mind for a long time. Before
starting, this thread is really just meant as a proposal, so please don't
take it personally at all! :-)
We all like gretl and gnuplot very much. But let's be honest, gnuplot's
default plotting settings are not fancy at all. When I introduce gretl to
potentially interested people, I instantly add "Not, this program is not from
the 1990s, and yes, you can make the graphs much more fancy by your own".
[...]
Point taken; we can probably do something to make gretl's gnuplot
plots look better by default -- and maybe also set up a choice of
"themes".
One observation on your side-by-side scatterplot comparison. The one
on the right (with modifications relative to the gretl default)
looks more appealing and up-to-date, I agree. But the choice of
filled circles to plot all points results in significant information
loss. In the old-style one on the left you can tell when "CIT=0" and
"CIT=1" points coincide, but on the right the CIT=1 points overwrite
the CIT=0 ones, with no hint (or none I can detect) that there's
anything "underneath".
Allin