Scott Grizzard – Personal Website

I wrote a little “utility spreadsheet” because I am always posting blank indifference curves in documents, and I used it to teach the indifference curve concept in class. I couldn’t find it last night when my girlfriend needed a graph, so I re-did it, but made it a little better (fixed the smooth curve problem when generating X’s to generate indifference curves).

It is what it is. I am releasing it (not the web site, just the chart) under the terms of the this Creative Commons license. There are probably a thousand of these on the web, with instructions on how to make more modifications. However, there probably aren’t many done in OpenOffice.org that are simple to use, and released under a copy-left license that allows commercial use, so here is mine. I hope it saves you some time.

I only tried it out in OpenOffice.org 3.1, but it will probably work in any 3.x. You can try to open it in that other office suite that people buy but can’t see source code for, but I don’t know if all of the graphing stuff will translate exactly. The Excel 2007 sp2 version should open the document, and a plug-in for other versions of Microsoft Office 2003/2007 can be installed as an add-on.

The last data sheet (titled notes) contains a list of notes for use, and I commented the data page.

I hope it helps.

indifference-curve-demonstrator.ods

PS: I would consider the charts produced by this system to be “output”, independent of the Data page. As far as I’m concerned, you can use the “charts alone” as freely as you want to – I think these are yours. If you are really worried the CC people might not agree, drop me an email (or fill out a comment here) and I will (subject to the definition of output) send you a copy-right assignment form. If the publisher makes you code your own, find a new publisher – I don’t know how to make my intent clearer.

If you make improvements, I’d appreciate a shout-back here, but that is not required in the license.

PPS: the big icon is part of the Oxygen Theme, and it is also CC-SAv3 licensed. See what happens when we share?