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Unix Graphing Programs?

Posted by Cliff on from the pretty-informational-pictures dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "For university I am looking for a program to make some nice 2D or 3D graphs to represent some data for statistics. I am currently using RedHat Fedora as my Linux distro but KChart, Gnumeric, OpenOffice, and the other ones I found weren't suitable. It would be nice if the "template" was easily configurable so I could standarize all of my work. i.e. have the actual value next to the bar etc.. It's mainly bar graphs that I need. Does anyone have any recommendations for good easy Linux programs to graph general data? professor didn't have any ideas for Linux."

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  1. Grace by BlakeGarretson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Without any doubt, Grace is the best 2D plotting program there is. Everything is configurable so you can produce anything you can imagine. The output is publication quality; ready to go into papers, books, etc.

  2. Scripts + OpenOffice. by Short+Circuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I haven't tried this yet, but it should work:

    OpenOffice's files consist of ZIPped XML files. If you create an example document in OpenOffice that is laid out how you want it, you should be able to update the content by replacing individual pieces of data in content.xml.

    That's one of the things I want to try with Citygen...automatically generating OpenOffice documents will be niice. :)

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