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Plotting/Graphing Programs for Mac OS X
brarrr writes "I'm starting out in graduate school at the UW in Materials Science and Engineering and doing research on spin electronics. Results from this work have me searching for a Mac OS X plotting/graphing program for 2D data and there are many of them, but no useful comparison anywhere. What do you use? What do you recommend? Why? My uses will include plotting, presentation, curve fit, trendline analysis, and more. I've looked briefly at: pro Fit, gnuplot (difficult to use, not very professional output), Abscissa (site is down, cannot evaluate), SmileLab (not very robust), Tecplot, IGOR (so far the best looking, but expensive), and KaleidaGraph (difficult to use, feels poorly ported). So what works/doesn't work? And don't bother saying Excel...."