Chapter 1. Prelude: understanding data with gnuplot

This chapter covers

  • Warmup examples
  • What is graphical analysis?
  • What is gnuplot?
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Gnuplot has long been one of the most popular open source programs for plotting and visualizing data. In this book, I want to show you how to use gnuplot to make plots and graphs of your data: both quick and easy graphs for your own use and highly polished graphs for presentations ...

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