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gnuplot Cookbook

By : Lee Phillips
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gnuplot Cookbook

By: Lee Phillips

Overview of this book

gnuplot is the world's finest technical plotting software, used by scientists, engineers, and others for many years. It is in constant development and runs on practically every operating system, and can produce output in almost any format. The quality of its 3d plots is unmatched and its ability to be incorporated into computer programs and document preparation systems is excellent. gnuplot Cookbook ñ it will help you master gnuplot. Start using gnuplot immediately to solve your problems in data analysis and presentation. Quickly find a visual example of the graph you want to make and see a complete, working script for producing it. Learn how to use the new features in gnuplot 4.4. Find clearly explained, working examples of using gnuplot with LaTeX and with your own computer programming language. You will master all the ins and outs of gnuplot through gnuplot Cookbook. You will learn to plot basic 2d to complex 3d plots, annotate from simple labels to equations, integrate from simple scripts to full documents and computer progams. You will be taught to annotate graphs with equations and symbols that match the style of the rest of your text, thus creating a seamless, professional document. You will be guided to create a web page with an interactive graph, and add graphical output to your simulation or numerical analysis program. Start using all of gnuplot's simple to complex features to suit your needs, without studying its 200 page manual through this Cookbook.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
gnuplot Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Finding Help and Information
Index

About the Reviewers

Andreas Bernauer is a Software Engineer at Active Group in Germany. He graduated at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, with a Degree in Bioinformatics and received a Master of Science degree in Genetics from the University of Connecticut, USA. In 2011, he earned a doctorate in Computer Engineering from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.

Andreas has more than 10 years of professional experience in software engineering. He implemented the server-side scripting engine in the scheme-based SUnet web server, hosted the Learning-Classifier-System workshops in Tübingen. He has been the reviewer for numerous scientific articles, research proposals, and books, and has been a judge in the German Federal Competition in Computer Science on several occasions. His main interests are functional programming and machine-learning algorithms.

David Millán Escrivá was 8 years old when he wrote his first program on 8086 PC with Basic language. He has more than 10 years of experience in IT. He has worked on computer vision, computer graphics, and pattern recognition. Currently he is working on different projects about computer vision and AR.