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Actually this touches on something that I've been thinking about. How do you guys make pretty charts and graphs? I use R to do statistical analysis, but nothing from R ever really looks that good (same with Matlab). Whenever I want to make a pie chart or similar I always end up using Mathematica or Illustrator. Is that normal?

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I think he may have created his with the Google Chart api:

http://code.google.com/apis/chart/

Edit: On closer inspection, maybe not. However the link is worth a look.

chances it's made with the Google Chart API: http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:99,01...

http://raphaeljs.com/ - these charts look very nice

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