How to display non contiguous datasets
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- Subject: [mg66815] How to display non contiguous datasets
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:31:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi,
Let's say I have a data source and it is adding to the existing data
set new points in every two minutes. The data set is in an array
called cg0254. Every element in that array has two values, the first
is a time value from the epoch, the second is a real number.
Something like this:
{3357970381, 96.2373}
Let say if I want to graph the last hour worth of data, I select a
subset of the data with Take:
Take[cg0254, -30]
and my function for the Ticks is something like:
Ticks -> {({#1, StringJoin[ToString[ToDate[#1][[2]]], "/", ToString
[ToDate[#1][[3]]], "\n",
ToString[ToDate[#1][[4]]], ":", ToString[ToDate[#1][[5]]]]}
& ) /@ Take[Take[cg0254, -30][[All,1]],
{1, Length[Take[cg0254, -30][[All,1]]], Floor[Length[Take
[cg0254, -30][[All,1]]]/14]}], Automatic}
that is, for tick marks I select 14 data points to avoid the
crowding of tick marks on the plot. It looks OK if the plot is about
6 inch or more wide.
A problem occurs however if the data source for some reason stops
emitting data - it is a computer with cron on it - and someone has to
restart it. Then after restart there will be a gap in the time
value, and that gap will start to rake havoc on my data selection and
Ticks function shown above. I can imagine that I can scan the data
before hand and identify the gap(s) and take the data with multiple
Take(s) and also to modify my Ticks function to accommodate the gaps.
The question is how to graph the data, that the gaps would show up as
two vertical lines 1/4 of the distance of two tick marks apart, with
no data shown between these vertical lines.
I am sure someone already run into this problem and there is some
solution for it "out there".
Any pointers are appreciated.
János
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