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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [January 14, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/html-graphing/78181 "2010-01-14T06:14:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:**  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/html-graphing/78181/1 "2010-01-14T06:14:31Z")
Lets say that hypothetically I’ve got a text file full of comma seperated variables that I want to display as an XY plot with a simple little html file.
Can this be done? What’s the easiest/simplest way to do this?
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**Author:**  [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/html-graphing/78181/2 "2010-01-14T06:18:50Z")
Can you use javascript in this controller?
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**Author:**  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/html-graphing/78181/3 "2010-01-14T06:19:50Z")
easiest way is to graph with excel, get a jpg of the graph, and embed it…unless of course this needs to be realtime graphing with values that are constantly changing
then it becomes far more difficult
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**Author:**  [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/html-graphing/78181/4 "2010-01-14T06:23:37Z")
Naw I’m trying to look at data without using excel.
Mike javascript would be a possibility. What I’m specifically talking about is using a SLC-500 BASIC module to dump data to my hard drive, then take a quick & dirty look at it.
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**Author:**  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/html-graphing/78181/5 "2010-01-14T06:53:34Z")
Check out the link to RRDTool that I sent you
Also, check out the Cacti project [http://www.cacti.net/](http://www.cacti.net/)
I use Cacti at work to trend server data in realtime, it’s slick, but it’s basically just RRDTool with some other built-in functionality.