Any good books on graphing/charting/visualization?
ajdecon: To me it sounds like you want to be using a tool like Matlab or matplotlib in python to automatically generate various types of plots from your data.  There are a wide variety of books about Matlab, and I don't really know one better than the rest.  For python, there's "Beginning Python Visualization" by Vaingast. It's pretty introductory, but provides good starting points.  The matplotlib web site also provides a gallery of example plots with code.