graphs software

[kalos]

hello

is thera a good software to create graphs?

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not a drawing program to draw them, but a specific program that you enter data and it creates the graphs

it would be nice to be highly customizable and offer glow effects, choosing background, etc

thanks

[kalos]

or a plugin for other graphics software?

I would also like to specify SD too, in the graph

[mouser]

there are a bunch of really great graphing software programs.. but i haven't been following them recently so i wouldn't want to advise.

[lanux128]

this is one source. might be too simple in your case..

• http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

[kalos]

yep, its google's first result

it's very simplistic

anyone with experience to what i am doing?

[widgewunner]

Whenever I need to graph something I reach for a spreadsheet. e.g. OpenOffice Calc.  The Calc program offers quite a few chart types: (e.g. column, bar, pie, area, line, XY scatter, Net, stock, column and line.) It takes a little bit of effort to learn how to get the graph looking like you want, but the results are pretty good. However, getting a decent .PNG file requires some trickery: long-story-short - first export the spreadsheet document as a PDF file then use a screen capture program to capture the image in the resolution you need by using the zoom function in the PDF display program. Below is an x-y line graph I threw together recently for some work I was doing over on the Drupal project...

However, I understand that there is a new (better) fork of the OpenOffice project, since Oracle aquired Sun...
But as mouser suggested, there are probably better alternatives.

[Curt]

, its google's first result

-oh, you do use google?!

[Darwin]

Excel or, as widgewunnder notes above, Calc (NB - OpenOffice has been rebranded LibreOffice) work well. There are also SoftMaker Office and Kingsoft Office, both of which have spreadsheet programs and both of which will graph data.

Standalone, dedicated graphing software, I'm not so aware of. I DO know that above and beyond Excel's built-in graphing capabilities there are a myriad of third-party add-ins for Excel that expand upon it.

[app103]

I found something interesting today:

XML/SWF Charts:

XML/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful tool to create attractive charts and graphs from XML data.

Create an XML source to describe a chart, then pass it to this tool's flash file to generate the chart. The XML source can be prepared manually, or generated dynamically using any scripting language (PHP, ASP, CFML, Perl, etc.)

XML/SWF Charts makes the best of both the XML and SWF worlds. XML provides flexible data generation, and Flash provides the best graphic quality.

There is both a paid and free version, and it makes stuff that looks like this:

[Renegade]

Excel or, as widgewunnder notes above, Calc (NB - OpenOffice has been rebranded LibreOffice) work well. There are also SoftMaker Office and Kingsoft Office, both of which have spreadsheet programs and both of which will graph data.

Standalone, dedicated graphing software, I'm not so aware of. I DO know that above and beyond Excel's built-in graphing capabilities there are a myriad of third-party add-ins for Excel that expand upon it.

+1

Excel/Calc are mature products with massive functionality. They've got years of improvements, so probably anything you want to do, they can do it and more.

[joiwind]

Have you looked at yoshinoGraph ?

[joiwind]

@ kalos : or this Veusz ?

[Curt]

or this Veusz ?

-really good, it seems.

Homepage: http://home.gna.org/veusz/
Screenshots: http://home.gna.org/veusz/screenshots/
9 more screenshots: http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Veusz-Screenshot-117323.html

[joiwind]

Yes - don't know why I didn't post the Veusz homepage ... 

However, there do seem to be problems with the download links both on the home page and at Softpedia.

[Curt]

no, they are just a little weird...

go to http://home.gna.org/veusz/downloads/ and click "Latest Windows binary" (1.12) 10.21MB

Edited:
also, read http://home.gna.org/veusz/releasenotes/1.12-install.txt