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3935087 No.3935087 [Reply] [Original]

I just want a free fucking graphing package /sci/
That will allow me to choose the x and y values of points I plot.
Why the fuck can I not find one?

>> No.3935096

Octave.

>> No.3935106

Graph?

>> No.3935108

>>3935096
Whilst I can see its use, I have no interest in something so complicated (or 3-D for that matter). I just need something that will freakin' allow me to plot points and so I can join a line between the damn points.

>> No.3935113

excel

>> No.3935121

>>3935106
I love you so much

>>3935113
I am not touching that piece of shit with a ten foot barge pole.
At least 2003 allowed access to the graphs. 2011 is shit.

>> No.3935133

>>3935121
Why is excel a piece of shit? It's an incredibly useful program that has basic graphing capabilities (more than you probably need, if you don't know any programs that let you make graphs)

>> No.3935150

>>3935133
It's statistical functions are borked:
http://www.forecastingprinciples.com/files/McCullough.pdf
Or at least the version they tested failed spectacularly.

Though, if all you need is to plot stuff, then I guess it could do fine.

>> No.3935151

Excel isn't free.

>> No.3935157
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3935157

>>3935133
Try getting the first column to be the x values and the second column to be the y values.
It's not even remotely fucking possible

>> No.3935163

gnuplot

>> No.3935176

>>3935157
All plotted on a line graph I mean

>>3935163
See
>>3935108

>> No.3935181

>>3935157
select the y values, plot graph, click edit data or something, press change x-axis, highlight x-values, done

>> No.3935182

>>3935108
Then just read up on the plot() command. Nobody forces you to do chi²-analysis.

>> No.3935216

>>3935176
Given such a response, the original post's picture is laughable. You have a nice thing. It's called "gnuplot." It is an excellent plotting program.

>> No.3935227

>>3935181
Nope, tried that earlier. You can change the data labels of the x axis, but then you have an inaccurate, unproportional graph. That is the extent.

This is what I meant in
>>3935121
I could set the x values so much easier.

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3935243

>>3935216

>> No.3935257

too bad you don't have a mac op. it just works and comes with graphing software.

>> No.3935259

>>3935243
I swear I must be retarded. because I don't know what bit goes in where. I need an IKEA's guide to gnuplot installation.

>> No.3935260

>>3935227

You choose scatterplot, not line graph.

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3935271

>>3935260
...ARRRRGGHHHHHHHHH
WHY DIDN'T I KNOW THIS BEFORE

Thank you anon, now that I've spent an hour trying to graph statistics I can finally get the actual maths homework done.

>> No.3935289

...NOW WHY NO X-AXIS AND Y-AXIS LABELS. EXPLAIN THIS BULLSHIT

>> No.3935292

>>3935289

Use the layout tab.

>> No.3935303

GNUplot was here. Y'all niggers are shit tier.

>> No.3935316

>>3935106

Graph is fucking awesome and simple. Fuck Excel.

>> No.3935321

Microsoft Mathematics.

>> No.3935323

Do you know C++? Make like a physicist and use ROOT for all your histogramming needs!