Graphing Programs

[Agent Law]

Are there any downloadable programs where you can enter in multiple (x,y) co-ords to display on a graph? If you can do in in Office Excel or OpenOffice Calc, how?

[Mafia Leader]

Get all your dooberies in a vertical list, by name, give the results column a a name (note: you can have more than one results column), and then highlight it all, and look around for a "turn this into a motherfuckin' graph, bitch" button. It looks like a bar graph. Once you've done that, play with buttons, and you'll soon have a pretty graph.

[Dave]

If you can't figure it out in a spread sheet dealy give winplot a try.

[pk!]

IIRC the standard app for Wintel is Matlab, there's prolly a demo on the net.
There is a freeware Mac app called Graphing Calculator which does a lot of stuff.

brb

[Dave]

PS. Winplot is free, just google for it.

[pk!]

The 64-bit beta of matlab is available free here http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk_beta/win64/win64_beta_rn.html

but you'll need a 64-bit XP to run it.

Luckily that too is available free from Microsoft as a time-limited demo. Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/evaluation/trial.mspx

[Mirsky]

I'm thinking that ChartFX (http://www.softwarefx.com/) or Nevron Chart (http://www.nevron.com/Charting.aspx?nav=ChartingNav&content=Charting) probably isn't what you are looking for :)

Srsly, just put the X data in one column in Excel, the Y data in the column next to it and use the Excel chart wizard to make the chart of your choice.

[Agent Law]

Awesome. Thanks guys.

[pk!]

If all else fails you can use this graph paper in your favourite image editor to manually add the points.

[Agent Law]

Yeah, I considered going old-school for a while, but then thought against it. I need to send the graph to other people, anyway.

[Modest Genius]

excel works for this, and is considerably cheaper (and lighter) than matlab. matlab is a programming language and data acquisition / analysis pack ffs, using it purely to plot graphs is over the top

CurveExpert (http://curveexpert.webhop.biz/) and EasyPlot (http://www.amion.com/ep/eplot.html) are also available, but overkill. excel will do it fine.

[HostileIntent]

texas instruments offers a digital calculator online that I think can do most types of graphing