Aru Ajifu (Demonbane) vs. Shinku (Rozen Maiden)

396 - 338

• Voting begins and ends at midnight, GMT+1.
• The character with most votes after 24h advances to the next round.
• The winner of each group goes on to the final round.

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Rika Furude (Higurashi no Naku Koro ni) vs. Fate Testarossa (Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s)

295 - 577

• Voting begins and ends at midnight, GMT+1.
• The character with most votes after 24h advances to the next round.
• The winner of each group goes on to the final round.

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I got some advice and pointers in my last post but I’m afraid I’m stuck again. I was able to convert the time stamps and get it into Excel and it now looks like this:

How do I go from that to something like this?

mwgamera recommended gnuplot:

1. Get times sorted ascending (records are alredy sorted so just revers the whole file with tac).
2. Simple perl script (like this one: http://phpfi.com/198770) to convert it to better format.
3. Use gnuplot (for example with this: http://phpfi.com/198773)
4. The result: http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6742/129ux2.png

Unfortunately, I don’t even understand the first step. Reverse? So the time comes before the vote answer? What is the easiest way to achieve that? Tac? What do I need to do in order to run the script? I have ActivePerl.

Chiyo Tsukidate (Strawberry Panic!) vs. Yuki Nagato (Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu)

166 - 564

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• The winner of each group goes on to the final round.

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I know how to dump the relevant data and I know how to get it into Excel. What I don’t know is how to read the timestamps. Is using Excel the wrong approach?

Here is the dump from the last round.

172 = Misuzu
173 = Suigintou