software for creating charts

OpenOffice.org has some pretty nice charting/graphing features.

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Nelson, Stephen <
stephen.nelson@marquette.edu> wrote:

> It must be the season, I was just looking at flowcharting for a professor
> this morning. I looked at a couple of options for creating flowcharts. I
> used Word’s flowchart features and an open source flowchart program name
> dia. I also used Free Mind, an open source mind mapping program to create
> something similar to a flowchart.
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> I think that Free Mind is the easiest to use but it also is the least
> visually appealing. If you were to demonstrate options and contingencies in
> class, it would be great. If you want students to have a handout, not so
> great.
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> Word has the best look and the formatting functions are familiar. I did
> find that it was a bit difficult to scale the size of the objects and
> accommodate larger amounts of text.
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> Dia is the most robust option, however, getting a visually appealing
> flowchart may take some work.
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> http://www.breezetree.com/blog/index.php/office-2007-flowcharts-are-slick/- flowcharting in Office 2007
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> http://www.osalt.com/dia - dia flowchart software
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> http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page - Free Mind
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> Steve Nelson
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> stephen.nelson@marquette.edu
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> Marquette University Law School
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> Media & Technology Group
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> http://law.marquette.edu/jw/tech
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> *From:* teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu [mailto:
> teknoids-bounces@ruckus.law.cornell.edu] *On Behalf Of *Tawnya Plumb
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 31, 2009 2:28 PM
> *To:* 'teknoids@ruckus.law.cornell.edu'
> *Subject:* [teknoids] software for creating charts
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> Hello all,
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> I have a professor who is looking for software advice for creating flow
> charts and multi-color bar charts to produce and include in a textbook.
> I’ve looked at reviews of Inspiration and SmartDraw, but I have no frame of
> reference for this kind of software. Have any of you used this type of
> software? Do you have any recommendations?
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> With thanks,
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> Tawnya Plumb
>
> Electronic Services Librarian
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> George W. Hopper Law Library
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> College of Law, University of Wyoming
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