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EasyPlot Scientific Graphing and Data Analysis
 If
you work with technical data, take a look at EasyPlot. It's powerful,
yet it's also fast and simple-to-use. Download
Free Trial!
EasyPlot history
EasyPlot was originally designed
at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the USA. Back in 1986, there wasn't much
good scientific software for the PC. Mac users had Cricket Graph, but
PC users had nothing equivalent.
The Laboratory began a project to write an easy-to-use, technical graphing
program for its researchers and engineers. After a year of prototyping
and development, Laboratory staff began using EasyPlot. Over the next
two years, they brought new features ideas to the author, Stuart Karon.
Stuart incorporated their suggestions into EasyPlot and built a full-featured
technical graphing program.
In 1989, Stuart licensed his work from MIT and founded Spiral Software.
His goal was to continue improving EasyPlot while making it available
to researchers around the world.
Stuart has done fairly well. Today's EasyPlot is laden with powerful
new features, but it's still compact and very fast. Thousands of scientists
around the world use EasyPlot and should continue using it for years to
come.
Design philosophy
EasyPlot's number one goal is
to show you a graph as quickly as possible. Upon startup, EasyPlot asks
for something to plot: a data file, an equation, or a previously created
graph. Choose, click OK, and a graph appears.
The second goal is to make viewing
and analysing data easy. Data occupies most of the EasyPlot window. Graphs
are live, zoomable and editable. Don't settle for a previewed graph in
a page in a window in the application window. You'll be left asking "Where's
the data?"
The third goal is to keep things
simple. A few neatly laid-out dialogues control all key aspects of graphs.
You won't find layers of complicated dialogues.
The fourth goal is to keep things
fast. Count how many clicks it takes to make a graph, first with EasyPlot
and then with any other program. Try graphing really large data sets --
tens or hundreds of thousands of points. You'll see how much faster EasyPlot
is!
Get EasyPlot here!
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