Ooooo...neat!

I just got done playing around with Swivel Preview which is a data graphing site.

This is what I made there.

Monthly Circs

I've been meaning to generate a graph of our Circ Data for...oh...about since I took over the job. (Remember folks uninterpreted data is just numbers. Boooo!) Though I did have a little help from one of my clerks to get the data entered into an excel sheet (though the Swivel site is very open about how you get the data in) the whole thing took maybe a half hour...and that includes the time it took to find the sheets that had all the information I was looking for in the first place. I haven't figured out how to tell it to interpret the data differently yet (say by month or by year total) and it may not be able to do that yet but it is still pretty cool, fast and easy to access.

Very Neat!

~0ps

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