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I’m pleased to announce new tools in SlopeCharts: the Quadratic Curve and the Cubic Curve. These are both drawn objects which can be made available via the drawn objects palette.
It’s easier to show you these things than to describe them. Here is the quadratic curve, which you can create by clicking two anchor points and then clicking a third anchor point between them to stretch the curve to your liking.
(more…)Those of you who use SlopeCharts are familiar with the tool palette in the lower-left corner, which provides direcetly access to sixteen different drawing objects:
There are two problems with this: one, it doesn’t have enough room to fit all our current tools, and two, it dissuades me from adding more drawing tools since we’re already out of room! We have solved both of these problems, and the solution is found with the icon in the lower-right of the tool palette, which is the new Customize function.
(more…)I am pleased to announce a subtle but very important improvement in SlopeCharts: you can now view line charts on a log scale, instead of being forced to use an arithmetic scale. We had forced this issue earlier, because in instances where values can be negative, we change the graph to a line chart and use the arithmetic scale. Now, SlopeCharts is smarter about it. To illustrate this, below are some Wilshire equity charts, which aren’t quite as jaw-dropping as before, because now the representation is a lot more honest:
