I need a program with which I can draw graphs, really simple graphs too, two axes. I want to be able to draw the curve myself, I don't want to fill in any data.
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Grapher is an app in your Utilities folder. If you're wanting to draw something use Word or Excel.
Your request is a bit puzzling. You are probably the first person on this forum to request help to use his computer to draw bad-looking graphs. If this is what you want, then the drawing feature of Word will do the trick as iSaint suggested. You really should look into a dedicated graphing app. For simplicity and power, KaleidaGraph is without peer. It allows you to add graphics to your graphs. You can also import graphs into dedicated drawing apps like ACD Canvas X for additional enhancement.
Try Graph Sketcher
Not puzzling at all - I need to draw curves by hand all the time for economics graphs. There is a Mac-only program created just for this purpose: Graph Sketcher.
Not puzzling at all - I need to draw curves by hand all the time for economics graphs. There is a Mac-only program created just for this purpose: Graph Sketcher.
Umm, nice thread resurrection champ. I think they've probably moved on by now.
Nice looking program you're pitching, though I think most people would like to graph actual data, not just freehand them.
Nice looking program you're pitching, though I think most people would like to graph actual data, not just freehand them.
people dont want data. for econ graphs, we want exactly what he was saying. dont use condescending tone (champ) if you're going to say something ignorant
+1 on the above
+1 on the above
Economic graphs
Ditto stizz.
I've been a statistician for years so I certainly appreciate data driven graphs and it is still beyond me why these folks can't grasp that data driven graphs are just not appropriate for a lot of applications (particularly writing textbooks, theoretical models, and other higher order work). Just ignorance.
Anyway Grapher is OK but I would only give it two stars. The Word 2003 - 2011 features I've found are no good. PowerPoint and SigmaPlot are what I'm using now, but they are obviously not made for this.
Ditto stizz.
I've been a statistician for years so I certainly appreciate data driven graphs and it is still beyond me why these folks can't grasp that data driven graphs are just not appropriate for a lot of applications (particularly writing textbooks, theoretical models, and other higher order work). Just ignorance.
Anyway Grapher is OK but I would only give it two stars. The Word 2003 - 2011 features I've found are no good. PowerPoint and SigmaPlot are what I'm using now, but they are obviously not made for this.
This is pretty common in fields like macroeconomics in which the graphs are drawn to illustrate an idea and not to show the result of some statistic.
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