What do you use to Graph? Origin, Sigmaplot, Excel?

boyfarrell

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Hi all,

I'm use scientific graphics packages / spreadsheets such as Origin and Sigmaplot. I hate using Excel because it looks so un-proffessional for papers, presentations etc. (I'm a research student)

I'm in the process of switching and was really disappointed to find out there isn't a MacOS version of Origin. What do you science types use for proffesional looking plots?

Cheers. Daniel.

PS - I use MATLAB frequently but again prefer the look of plots produced by the graphical / spreadsheet packages.

I'm all ears if you have and ideas.
 
I use Matlab for most graphs. However, of late I have been slowly moving to using GNUPlot with AquaTerm. It provides some very nice looking graphs (better than MATLAB on OS X), though it isn't as comprehensive as Matlab's support for graphs.
 
boyfarrell said:
Hi all,

I'm use scientific graphics packages / spreadsheets such as Origin and Sigmaplot. I hate using Excel because it looks so un-proffessional for papers, presentations etc. (I'm a research student)

I'm in the process of switching and was really disappointed to find out there isn't a MacOS version of Origin. What do you science types use for proffesional looking plots?

Cheers. Daniel.

PS - I use MATLAB frequently but again prefer the look of plots produced by the graphical / spreadsheet packages.

I'm all ears if you have and ideas.
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