Known users from DebianScience listed in parenthesis. See also ?EducationGraphics.
Data plotting tools already packaged in Debian
Menu based
grace upstream (Victor Munoz (1) and (2)) 2D publication-quality plotting
fityk (upstream) Fityk is a flexible and portable program for nonlinear fitting of analytical functions (especially peak-shaped) to data (usually experimental data). In other words, for nonlinear peak separation and analysis.
kst (upstream) A KDE application used for displaying scientific data
Command line or library
plotutils upstream is a GPL package good for quick and paper quality plots either from the command line (e.g. pipe a text file into graph ) or as a library
GNU R is a free implementation of the S programming language for statistical analysis. It is very useful for data visualization and other computational science tasks.
yorick interpreted language and scientific graphics
pgfplots (ITP: 514751) - TeX package to draw normal and/or logarithmic plots directly in TeX http://pgfplots.sourceforge.net/
Plotting with Python
Numerical Computation (MATLAB/IDL like)
See the numerical computation task - http://blends.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/numericalcomputation
Image handling
gwyddion Scanning Probe Microscopy visualization and analysis
imview Image viewing and analysis application
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/graphics/findimagedupes findimagedupes] Finds visually similar or duplicate images
3D visualization
ifrit a powerful tool for visualizing 3-dimensional data sets
imview Image viewing and analysis application
mayavi A scientific data visualization system
ParaView is a parallel visualization application based on vtk
Vector drawing
xfig (Kevin McCarty, Victor Munoz, Carlo Segre, Kenward Vaughan)
Asymptote upstream (Alexander Sieck) script-based vector graphics language inspired by ?MetaPost
dia Diagram editor
Graphs of relationships
graphviz (upstream) Graph drawing addresses the problem of visualizing structural information by constructing geometric representations of abstract graphs and networks.
Graph digitization
g3data extract data from scanned graphs
engauge-digitizer interactively extracts numbers from bitmap graphs or maps
Others
See also debian-med/imaging
Data plotting tools that could be considered for inclusion in Debian
karma upstream (Vincent McIntyre). Read this.
?SciCraft upstream with unofficial .deb
scrirun upstream (Yaroslav Halchenko)
Plotting with Python
http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting (JD Rogers, Carlo Segre)
Eman upstream
?MatPy
Easy and simple tools to plot data
(moved from DebianScience)
- python is good at that
- openoffice.org calc can be used to plot 2D data
OpenDX is very powerful (for 3D data) but cannot be started intuitivly (aside from import quirks, it is once you understand the idea, though)
matrix2png (Apache licence). Turns a matrix into a heatmap picture (Originally written for biologists)
A yorick plug-in (yorick-mpeg) exists for producing mpeg animations (not in Debian due to patent issues, but available on the unofficial repo).
Data plotting tools that cannot go to main for licensing reasons
pgplot5 (non-free) packages available.