Thread: GNUPlot Plotting is Fun

While strings and pages of data seem cryptic,a plot reveals the entire data flow at a glance. Interpretation suddenly seems much easier. Understanding that maze of numbers requires just a glance. Scientists, mathematicians, engineers and statisticians rely heavily on plots. While OriginLab, an expensive commercial plotting software, is used extensively among university researchers or those blessed with bulging purses, GNUPlot doesn't lag behind. It is very popular amongst scientists at the IITs, IISc and other universities.



In fact, knowledge and skill in GNUPlot is one of the requirements for some senior research fellowships at the IITs! (See, for example, http://academicjobs.in/jobs/vacancy-for¬the-senior-proj ect -associate- in- iit - kanpur/20 10/08/26/). The fact that GNUPlot can be used along with applications like Octave makes it even more indispensable.