I live! Honest!
The State of the Brat is not good, but it gets worse if I try and write about it here, so quick run down:
On the positive front:
And then here's me asking for help, because I'm sure there should be a way I can get ExCel (or maybe another free program to do this), and the Flist is great for helping out on these occasions.
I'm producing scatterplots of PCA analysis, as you do, but feeling really frustrated at having to do a lot by hand that I don't want to.
I have, for each data point: a species name, a family name, and the X-Y coordinates. I want to produce plots that are colour coordinated according to family (where the family is the series), and the points labeled with species. At the moment
- I can't get the individual labels at all
- I'm having to manually add each series, when I'm sure ExCel should be able to find out how the series are divided and do it automatically.
- I'm having to do this again for each plot, because I can't find a simple way of duplicating the charts for minor tweakages eah time.
Anyone know ExCel better than me?
OK, now I'm off to try and eat lunch.
- Sterghios is moving out.This is stressful. I'm not being the friend he or drakhen need right now because I'm stressed
- state of the PhD too terrifying to contemplate. Brings anxiety attacks every time I look at the big picture.
- was unable to eat breakfast this morning due to anxiety. Remembering what happened the time when a fight with a friend ruined a week's worth of appetite starting with my sister's wedding, I bought a smoothie in South Kensington this morning and am dealing with it.
On the positive front:
- I enjoy both my volunteer positions more than I ever have my PhD work. One is interesting and feels productive, the other - I've had two training sessions so far, and oh my Bob it's like coming home. I now know I will fight hell and high water to be involved in science education for the rest of my life.
- I love ms_ntropy.
- I also have a great fondness for weaverandom, steely_glint, rushin_doll, davegodfrey and snapesbabe, whose RP, twitters, and/or just plain existence keeps me grounded.
- OMG GONNA BE AN AUNT.
And then here's me asking for help, because I'm sure there should be a way I can get ExCel (or maybe another free program to do this), and the Flist is great for helping out on these occasions.
I'm producing scatterplots of PCA analysis, as you do, but feeling really frustrated at having to do a lot by hand that I don't want to.
I have, for each data point: a species name, a family name, and the X-Y coordinates. I want to produce plots that are colour coordinated according to family (where the family is the series), and the points labeled with species. At the moment
- I can't get the individual labels at all
- I'm having to manually add each series, when I'm sure ExCel should be able to find out how the series are divided and do it automatically.
- I'm having to do this again for each plot, because I can't find a simple way of duplicating the charts for minor tweakages eah time.
Anyone know ExCel better than me?
OK, now I'm off to try and eat lunch.