Visualize your data with gnuplot (developerWorks) [LWN.net]

IBM developerWorks looks at Gnuplot 4.0. "Gnuplot is a freely distributed plotting tool with ports available for nearly every major platform. It can be operated in one of two modes: when you need to adjust and prettify a graph to "get it just right," you can operate it in interactive mode by issuing commands at the gnuplot prompt. Alternately, gnuplot can read commands from a file and produce graphs in batch mode."

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Visualize your data with gnuplot (developerWorks)

Posted Jul 26, 2004 18:07 UTC (Mon) by sfeam (subscriber, #2841) [Link] (1 responses)

I am glad to see any new tutorial for gnuplot, since almost all of the existing guides predate the many new features in gnuplot version 4.

But it is curious that this one totally fails to mention the 3rd major mode of operation: using gnuplot as part of a web server back end that generates in-line graphics in response to web queries. I predict this use will become even more attractive as browser support for SVG increases.