Book description
Visual guide to every kind of graph you can make with this plotting software with this book
- See a picture of the graph you want to make and find a ready-to-run script to produce it
- Working examples of using gnuplot in your own programming language... C, Python, and more
- Find a problem-solution approach with practical examples enriched with good pictorial illustrations and code
In Detail
gnuplot is the world's finest technical plotting software, used by scientists, engineers, and others for many years. It is in constant development and runs on practically every operating system, and can produce output in almost any format. The quality of its 3d plots is unmatched and its ability to be incorporated into computer programs and document preparation systems is excellent.
gnuplot Cookbook – it will help you master gnuplot. Start using gnuplot immediately to solve your problems in data analysis and presentation. Quickly find a visual example of the graph you want to make and see a complete, working script for producing it. Learn how to use the new features in gnuplot 4.4. Find clearly explained, working examples of using gnuplot with LaTeX and with your own computer programming language.
You will master all the ins and outs of gnuplot through gnuplot Cookbook.
You will learn to plot basic 2d to complex 3d plots, annotate from simple labels to equations, integrate from simple scripts to full documents and computer progams. You will be taught to annotate graphs with equations and symbols that match the style of the rest of your text, thus creating a seamless, professional document. You will be guided to create a web page with an interactive graph, and add graphical output to your simulation or numerical analysis program.
Start using all of gnuplot's simple to complex features to suit your needs, without studying its 200 page manual through this Cookbook.
Table of contents
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gnuplot Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- gnuplot Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
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1. Plotting Curves, Boxes, Points, and more
- Introduction
- Plotting a function
- Plotting multiple curves
- Using two different y-axes
- Making a scatterplot
- Plotting boxes
- Plotting circles
- Drawing filled curves
- Handling financial data
- Making a basic histogram plot
- Stacking histograms
- Plotting multiple histograms
- Dealing with errors
- Making a statistical whisker plot
- Making an impulse plot
- Graphing parametric curves
- Plotting with polar coordinates
- 2. Annotating with Labels and Legends
- 3. Applying Colors and Styles
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4. Controlling your Tics
- Introduction
- Adding minor tics
- Placing tics on the second y-axis
- Adjusting the tic size
- Removing all tics
- Defining the tic values
- Making the tics stick out
- Setting manual tics
- Plotting with dates and times
- Changing the language used for labels [new]
- Using European-style decimals [new]
- Formatting tic labels
- 5. Combining Multiple Plots
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6. Including Plots in Documents
- Introduction
- Introducing gnuplot's high-quality graphics formats [new]
- Adding a plot to a paper using LaTeX
- Assembling a document using TikZ and LaTeX [new]
- Assembling a document using epslatex
- Using gnuplot within LaTeX
- Creating presentation slides with incrementally displayed graphs
- Including a plot in a web page
- Making an interactive plot for the Web [new]
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7. Programming gnuplot and Dealing with Data
- Introduction
- Scripting gnuplot with its own language
- Plotting on subintervals
- Smoothing your data
- Fitting functions to your data
- Using kdensity smoothing to improve on histograms [new]
- Creating a cumulative distribution [new]
- Talking to gnuplot with C
- Scripting gnuplot with Python
- Plotting with Clojure
- Handling volatile data [new]
- 8. The Third Dimension
- 9. Using and Making Graphical User Interfaces
- 10. Surveying Special Topics
- A. Finding Help and Information
- Index
Product information
- Title: gnuplot Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2012
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781849517249
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