[R] Presentation of data in Graphical format
hadley wickham
h.wickham at gmail.com
Wed Nov 18 16:59:30 CET 2009
That is not enough information for anyone to suggest a useful plot.
For a start:
* How many observations do you have?
* How many difference posts/departments/tasks?
* Are the variables nested or crossed?
* Have you successfully parsed the time representation into something
R can work with? Is the representation inconsistent as in your
example?
* What is the purpose of the study? What do you want to find out?
Maybe you should meet with a local statistical consultant to discuss
these issues in person. WARNING: you might have to pay - good advice
is not always/seldom/ever free.
Hadley
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Sunita Patil <sunitap22 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Sir
>
> I had given a sample of my data, As I cannot disclose whole of my data this
> is just a sample given
>
> 1st column: Posts (GM, Secretary, AM, Office Boy)
> 2nd Column: Dept (Finance, HR, ...)
> 3rd column: Tasks (Open the door, Fix an appointment, Fill the register,
> etc.....) depending on the post
> 4th column: Average Time required to do the task
>
> So the sample data would look like
> Posts Dept Task Average time
> Office Boy HR Open the door 00:00:09
> Office Boy HR Switch on the lights 00:00:10
> Secretary Finance Fix an appointment 00.00.30
> .... .... ..... .....
>
> .... .... ..... .....
> .... .... ..... .....
>
> in my data the 1st column is the main category say suppose "Secretary" the
> second column is the sub category "HR Dept" the 3rd column is the list of
> duties performed by the Secretary from HR dept and 4th column is time
> required to perform the duty
>
> so there are many such posts and dept with varied duties and times resp
>
>
> Regards
>
> Our Thoughts have the Power to Change our Destiny.
> Sunita
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:15 PM, hadley wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Yes I tried all the basic ones like box plot, pie chart, etc but the
>> > data
>> > representation isnt that clear.
>>
>> Given that you have neither provided your data, nor explained what you
>> are trying to uncover from it, what sort of advice do you expect to
>> get?
>>
>> Hadley
>>
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>
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