File talk:WTI price 96 09.svg

New Approach

I'm going to be switching source and plotting technique.

source: EIA

GNU plot script:

set terminal svg
set output "weekly_WTI.svg"
set style data line
set timefmt "%m/%d/%Y"
set xdata time
set format x "%Y"
set xrange [ "1/1/1996": "1/1/2011" ]
set grid
set key left
plot 'weekly_WTI.dat' using 1:2 t 
set terminal wxt
replot

The elegance of this solution compared to what I have been doing is astounding. I hope to apply this kind of technique for many things that I'm working on. Things should start looking a lot better. Theanphibian (talk) 17:39, 20 April 2010 (UTC)