List of information graphics software

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This is a list of software to create any kind of information graphics:

Computer algebra systems

Software Example(s) Interface Licence(s) Operating system Distinguishing features
License Open Source (yes/no) Price
GeoGebra GeoGebra GUI GPL Yes Free Geometry diagrams only
Kig GUI GPL Yes Free Geometry diagrams only
Maple Maple GUI, Command line No Mac OS X, Linux, Windows
MathCad GUI No Windows Simple GUI driven interface
Mathematica Mathematica GUI, Command line, C++ No Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, HPUX, Solaris Also a statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language
Maxima GUI, Command line GPL Yes Free Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, BSD and Unix Like OS Various graphical user interfaces, Support LaTex with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with SAGE

Numerical software

Software Example(s) Interface Licence(s) Operating system Distinguishing features
License Open Source (yes/no) Price
Baudline GUI proprietary No, Source available free Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris
GNU Octave GUI, Command line, C, C++, Fortran GPL Yes Free Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, OSX, OS/2 or eComStation MATLAB compatible, Built-in ODE and DAE solvers, Extensive user contributed toolboxes
LabVIEW No
FlexPro
Matlab Matlab No
PDL
S-Lang
Scilab
SymPy
SciPy, NumPy, matplotlib modules for Python
Sysquake GUI, command line proprietary No 250$ (LE free) Linux, Windows, OSX MATLAB compatible, interactive graphics

Plotting programs (graphing programs)

Software Example(s) Interface Licence(s) Operating system Distinguishing features
License Open Source (yes/no) Price
Descartes (plotting tool) GUI GPL Yes Free Any (Python) Inactive as of 2005
EpsTk Toolkit for use with Matlab and GNU Octave GPL Yes Free Any (Octave or Matlab)
Gnuplot Foucault pendulum Command line, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk own licence Free Windows, Mac, Linux, VMS, Ultrix, OS/2, MS-DOS, Amiga, OS-9/68k, Atari ST, BeOS Built in scripting language
Grace Grace-screenshot Command line, GUI, various APIs GPL Yes Free Windows (cygwin), Mac(X11), Linux Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr
Graph Graph Screen Capture GUI GPL Yes Free Windows
Grapholic Grapholic Main Canvas GUI proprietary No Non-freeUS$99[1] Windows
IGOR Pro IgorPro Screen Capture GUI proprietary No Non-freeUS$550[1] Windows, Mac
JFreeChart JFreeChart screenshot GUI, Java, Groovy LGPL Yes Free Any (Java)
KChart KChart screenshot GUI GPL Yes Free Linux (KDE)
kst Kst screenshot GUI GPL Yes Free Linux (KDE)
LabPlot LabPlot screenshot GUI, Qt scripting GPL Yes Free Linux (KDE)
LiveGraph LiveGraph real-time data chart plotter GUI BSD-style Yes Free Any (Java) Real-time plotting; Point-and-click interface; API for data handling
MatheGrafix MatheGrafix screenshot GUI own license No Free Windows a function plotter which allows users to print, present or embed a large variety of graphs in Office documents
MathGV GUI No Free Windows Freeware
GraphEasyRect GUI No Free Windows,Linux,Mac Freeware
Nucalc GUI proprietary No Non-freeUS$100[1] Windows, Mac OS, Mac OS X
OpenPlaG openPlaG graphs screenshot GUI GPL Yes Free Any (PHP 5)
Origin GUI proprietary No Non-freeUS$950 (std)/1500 (pro)[1] Windows
PGPLOT FORTRAN, C No Free for non commercial Windows, Mac, Linux (Fortran) California Institute of Technology Inactive as of 2001
Physics Plot Physics PlotScreenshot GUI proprietary No Non-freeUS$100 Windows (visualbasic)
ploticus A plot of Wikipedia statistics in Ploticus Command line, C GPL Yes Free Windows, Mac, Linux
QtiPlot GUI GPL Yes €20 (compiled program) Windows, Mac, Linux
ROOT ROOT plot showing regions of interest in a 2D distribution GUI, C++, Python, Ruby LGPL Yes Free Windows, Mac, Linux
SciDAVis GUI, Python GPL Yes Free Windows, Mac, Linux Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable
SigmaPlot GUI proprietary No Non-freeUS$749[1] Windows
Turbo Plot GUI proprietary No Free Windows x86/x64, Vectored Plots.
Visifire Independent of Server side Scripting GPL Yes Free Windows, Mac
ChartGizmo GUI proprietary No Free Any( internet service) ChartGizmo service allows to create and publish charts and graphs online
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Statistical software

Software Example(s) Interface Licence(s) Operating system Distinguishing features
License Open Source (yes/no) Price
DAP
Epi Info
EViews
gretl
PSPP
QI Macros No $139 Excel Add in Control Chart Wizard analyzes your data and selects the right chart for you
MedCalc Gui Proprietary No $395 Windows
R programming language
S-PLUS
S-Lang
Statistical Lab
SAS System
SPSS Gui, Command Line No
Statgraphics Gui Proprietary No $695 Windows Statistical software package for exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, design of experiments, time series forecasting, quality improvement and Six Sigma.
Stata
Systat
SOCR

Spreadsheets

Graphing functionality are included in almost all spreadsheet programs. Some well-known examples are:

Some online spreadsheets also support charting:

Vector graphics

Vector graphics software can be used for manual graphing or for editing the output of another program. Please see:

See also

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