Category Archives: Octave

Producing Pretty Graphs

My aim to reproduce Figure 1: Internet users and non-users by age group (years), 2012 Q3 from the Internet Access Quarterly Update, Q3 2012 from the Office for National Statistics. For this I will be using Octave

THE PLAN

1) Download data as xml and convert to csv
2) Read the data into Octave and check this it has been read in correctly
data = data = dlmread(“<my_file.csv>”,”,”);
size(data)
The expected output will be 8 4
3) Divide the date into the correct axis
x = data(:,1);
ya = data(:,2);
yb = data(:,3);
yc = data(:,4);
4) Plot the new data

     plot(x,ya,”;Used within last 3 months;”,x,yb,”;Used more than 3 months ago;”,x,yc,”;Never used;”)

5) Label the x and y axis
xlabel(“Age Group(Years)”);
ylabel(“Percentage who have used the internet”);
6) Give the graph a title

     title(“Internet users and non-users by age group (years), 2012 Q3”);

7) Output the graph and save
print(“test.pdf”,”-dpdf”);