SciDAVis

Infobox software
name = SciDAVis



caption = Screenshot of SciDAVis 0.1.0 on Linux
latest_release_version = 0.1.3
latest_release_date = 19 April 2008
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Plotting
license = GNU General Public License
website = http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/

SciDAVis ("Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization") is a cross-platform plotting and data analysis program.

Released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, SciDAVis is free software.

Mission statement

"
text=SciDAVis is a free interactive application aimed at data analysis and publication-quality plotting. It combines a shallow learning curve and an intuitive, easy-to-use graphical user interface with powerfulfeatures such as scriptability and extensibility. SciDAVis runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X; possibly also on other platforms like some BSD variants, although this is untested.
SciDAVis is similar in its field of application to proprietary Windows applications like Origin and SigmaPlot as well as free applications like QtiPlot, LabPlot and Gnuplot.
What sets SciDAVis apart from the above is its emphasis on providing a friendly and open environment (in the software as well as the project) for new and experienced users alike. Particularly, this means that wewill try to provide good documentation on all levels, ranging from user's manual over tutorials down to and includingdocumentation of the internal APIs.
We encourage users to share their experiences on our [https://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=199120 forums] and on our [https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=199120 mailing lists] .
sign = — [http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/about/index.html SciDAVis about page]

Features

SciDAVis can generate different types of 2D and 3D plots (such as line, scatter, bar, pie, and surface plots) from data that is either imported from ASCII files, entered by hand, or calculated using formulas. [ [http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/help/manual/index.html The SciDAVis Handbook] ] The data is held in spreadsheets which are referred to as tables with column-based data (typically X and Y values for 2D plots) or matrices (for 3D plots). The spreadsheets as well as graphs and note windows are gathered in a project and can be organized using folders. The built-in analysis operations include column/row statistics, (de)convolution, FFT and FFT-based filters. Curve fitting can be performed with user-defined or built-in linear and nonlinear functions, including multi-peak fitting, based on the GNU Scientific Library. The plots can be exported to several bitmap formats, PDF, EPS or SVG. Note windows support in-place evaluation of mathematical expressions or an optional scripting interface to Python. The GUI of the application uses the Qt (toolkit).

History

* June 2007: The SciDAVis project is founded by former QtiPlot developers as a fork of that project with the aim of introducing changes in design as well as project structure.
* 2007-08-05: Release 0.1.0
* 2007-12-21: Release 0.1.1
* 2008-02-03: Release 0.1.2
* 2008-04-19: Release 0.1.3

See also

*List of graphing software

References

External links

* [http://scidavis.sourceforge.net SciDAVis web site]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidavis/ SciDAVis project page at Sourceforge]
* [http://packman.links2linux.de/package/scidavis openSUSE packages]
* [http://debian.physik.hu-berlin.de/ Debian etch packages]