List of graphing software
From HandWiki
This is a list of software to create any kind of 
information graphics:
- either includes the ability to create one or more infographics from a provided data set
- either it is provided specifically for information visualization
| Software | Example(s) | Interface | Licence(s) | Latest Release | Operating system | Distinguishing features | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | Open Source (yes/no) | ||||||
| AIDA |
LGPL |
Yes | 2003 / 3.2.1 | Open interfaces and formats for particle physics data processing | |||
| Algebrator |
GUI |
Proprietary | No | 2009 / 4.2 | Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows |
2D graphs | |
| Archim |
drawing 2D and 3D graphs | freeware |
No | 2008 | Windows | Graphs in polar (or other) coordinates become specific cases of parametric graphs. | |
| Baudline |
 140px|Baudline |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 2010 / 1.08 | FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris |
Signal analysis tool |
| D3js |
JavaScript library |
BSD |
Yes | 2018 / 5.7.0 | web browsers, js engines | static and dynamic presentations | |
| DADiSP |
 150px|DADiSP |
GUI, command line, SPL script language | Proprietary | No | 2017/ 6.7 B02 | Windows | Numerical analysis and signal processing with a spreadsheet-like interface
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| DAP |
GNU-style copyleft[1] | Yes | 2014 / 3.10 | Statistics | |||
| Datacopia |
 thumb|Sample charts created through datacopia |
GUI (web based) | Freemium |
No | Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android | Generates a ranked list of several plots & visualizations based on an analysis of the data provided, allowing the user to choose their favorite graphic, share it, and export it as an image. | |
| DataScene |
GUI | Shareware |
No | 2011 / 3.0.7 | Linux, Unix/X11, Windows | 2D & 3D graphing, animated graphs, data analysis, curve fitting, and data monitoring. | |
| Descartes (plotting tool) |
GUI | GPL |
Yes | 2005 / 0.7 | Any (Python) | Inactive 2005 | |
| Descartes (plotting tool) |
GUI | GPL |
Yes | 2005 / 0.7 | Any (Python) | Inactive 2005 | |
| DataMelt | GUI | GPL |
Yes | 2005 0.7 | Any (Java) | also jHepWok | |
| EJS |
 150px|EJS |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Creates ODE solving interactive, ready-to-publish Java applets | |
| Epi Info |
GPL | Yes | 2018/02/02 / 7.2.2.6 | Windows | Statistics | ||
| EViews |
Proprietary | No | 2017/06/21 / 10 | Statistics | |||
| Fityk |
 150px|old screenshot |
GUI, command line | GPL | Yes | 2016 / 1.3.1 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | specialized in curve fitting |
| FlexPro |
Proprietary | No | 2017 | MS Windows only | |||
| FreeMat |
 150px|Freemat screenshot |
GPL | Yes | 2013 / 4.2 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | ||
| FusionCharts |
 thumb|Create Interactive Charts and Graphs |
GUI (web based), JavaScript Charting Library | Proprietary |
No | 2016 / 3.11.3 | All Web Browsers (including IE 6), JS Engines | Interactive JavaScript Charts for your Web & Mobile applications. Get 90+ chart types and 965 maps, readymade business dashboards and demos. |
| GeoGebra |
 150px|GeoGebra |
GUI | GPL | Yes | 2017 / 6.0.385.0 | Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows | Very good for rendering Geometry, Graphs, Statistical Diagrams, (LaTeX) Formula Rendering. All antialiased in PNG Export. Export to SVG, EPS, EMF, PNG, PDF. |
| Gephi |
 150px|Gephi |
GUI | GPLv3 / CDDL 1.0 | Yes | 2016 / 0.9.1 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs |
| ggplot2 |
R |
GPL2 | Yes | 2016 / 2.2.1 | Cross-platform | Based on "The Grammar of Graphics" | |
| Gnumeric |
GUI | GPL | Yes | 2018 / 1.12.43 | Cross-platform |
Spreadsheet | |
| GNU Octave |
 150px|Octave |
GUI, command line, C, C++, Fortran | GPL | Yes | 2018 / 4.4.1 | eComStation, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Solaris or Windows |
MATLAB compatible, built-in ODE and DAE solvers, extensive user contributed toolboxes |
| Gnuplot |
 150px|Foucault pendulum |
Command line, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, third-party GUIs |
Own license | Yes | 2018 / 5.2.4 | Amiga, Atari ST, BeOS, Linux, Mac, MS-DOS, OS/2, OS-9/68k, Ultrix, Windows, VMS | Built in scripting language |
| GrADS |
command line | GPL | Yes | 2018 / 2.2.1 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX, DEC Alpha, IRIX | Visualization of Earth science data | |
| GLE |
Command line, GUI | BSD / GPL | Yes | 2015 / 4.2.5f | Linux, Mac, Windows | Graphics scripting language | |
| GraphPad Prism |
GUI | proprietary | No | 10|12 / 7.0b | Mac, Windows | ||
| Grace |
 150px|Grace-screenshot |
Command line, GUI, various APIs | GPL | Yes | 2015 / 5.1.25 | Linux, Mac(X11), Windows (cygwin) | Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr |
| Graphviz |
DOT language |
CPL |
Yes | / 2.40.1 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | ||
| gretl |
GUI |
GPL |
Yes | 2018 / 2018c | Linux, Mac, Windows | Specialized in econometrics and time series analyses, built-in scripting language, interface to gnuplot and R | |
| HippoDraw |
GPL v2 | Yes | 2007/ 1.21.3 | C++-based data analysis system | |||
| IGOR Pro |
 150px|IGOR Pro |
GUI | proprietary | No | 2019 / 8.0.3 | Mac, Windows | 3D and volume visualization, Curve and peak fitting, Signal processing, Image processing |
| ILNumerics |
Math library for .NET / C# |
GPL / proprietary | 2015 / v4.8 | Windows and Linux | Math library with rich visualization features (interactive 3D scenes, scientific plotting) and MATLAB-like syntax.
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| Ipe |
 150px|IPE Clipping example |
GUI, XML |
GPL | Yes | 2016 / 7.2.7 | Linux, Mac, Windows, OS/X | IPE Graphics with LaTeX equations or notations can be stored as PDF files (not only exported to PDF) and be included in LaTeX documents. pdftoipe allows any PDF graph to be edited in Ipe. |
| JFreeChart |
 150px|JFreeChart screenshot |
GUI, Java, Groovy |
LGPL | Yes | 2017 / 1.5.0 | Any ( Java) |
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| KChart |
 150px|KChart screenshot |
GUI | GPL | Yes | 2017 / 3.0.1 | Linux (KDE) | |
| Kig |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Geometry diagrams only | |||
| LabPlot |
 150px|LabPlot screenshot |
GUI, Qt scripting | GPL | Yes | 2019 / 2.6.0 | Linux (KDE), Windows | data analysis, nonlinear curve fitting in 2D, data picking from images, live data plotting |
| LabVIEW |
Proprietary | No | 05 / 2017 | Visual circuits modeling | |||
| LiSiCA |
 300px |
Python |
No | Windows, Linux | Ligand-based virtual screening software that searches for 2D and 3D similarities between a reference compound and a database of target compounds. | ||
| MagicPlot |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 2016 / 2.7.2 | Any ( Java) |
Nonlinear fitting, batch processing | |
| Maple |
 150px|Maple |
GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | 2017 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | |
| MathCad |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 03|06 / Prime 4.0, 2015 / 15.0 M045 | Windows | Simple GUI driven interface | |
| Mathematica |
 150px|Mathematica |
GUI, command line, C++ | Proprietary | No | 14.0.0 (January 9, 2024) [±][2] | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Raspberry Pi[3] |
Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language. See Wolfram Language.
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| MATLAB |
 150px|MATLAB |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 2017 / R2017b | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Matrix system |
| Maxima |
GUI, command line | GPL | Yes | 2017 / 5.41.0 | BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix Like OS, Windows | Various graphical user interfaces, Support LaTeX with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with SageMath
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| MayaVi |
 150px|Mayavi |
GUI, Python, scriptable, embeddable | BSD | Yes | 2018 / 4.6.2 | GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Visualises computational grids, scalar/vector/tensor data. Texture & ray-cast mappers. |
| MedCalc |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 2017 / 17.9 | Windows | Statistics | |
| Microsoft Excel |
GUI | Proprietary |
No | Mac OS X, Windows |
Spreadsheet | ||
| NCSS (statistical software) |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 2016 / NCSS 11 | Windows | Statistical Analysis and Statistical Graphics software | |
| Nucalc |
GUI | proprietary | No | Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows | |||
| Numbers (iWork) |
GUI | Proprietary |
No | 2017 / 4.1 | Mac OS X | Spreadsheet | |
| OpenDX |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 2006 / 4.4.0 | Cross-platform | ||
| OpenOffice.org Calc |
GUI | GNU LGPL |
Yes | 2011 / 3.3 | Cross-platform |
Spreadsheet | |
| OpenPlaG |
 150px|openPlaG graphs screenshot |
GUI | GPL | Yes | 2018 / 3.5 | Any (PHP 5) | graph plotter |
| Orange |
 150px|Orange example workflow screenshot |
GUI, Python scripting | GPL | Yes | 2017 / 3.5 | GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | A visual programming data-flow software suite with widgets for statistical data analysis, interactive data visualization, data mining, and machine learning.
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| Origin |
GUI, COM, C/C++ and scripting | proprietary | No | 2017 / 2017 SR2 | Windows | Multi-layer 2D, 3D and statistical graphs for science and engineering. Built-in digitizing tool. Auto-recalculation and reporting. Programmable, with access to NAG Numerical Library.
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| ParaView |
GUI, Python scripting | GPL | Yes | 2018 / 5.5.2 | Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Windows | Parallel scientific and Computational Fluid Dynamics visualizations
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| PDL |
 150px|PDL |
Artistic License / GPL | Yes | 2018 / 2.019 | Perl Data Language | ||
| PGPLOT |
FORTRAN, C | No | 2001 / 5.2.2 | Linux, Mac, Windows | (Fortran) California Institute of Technology, Inactive (As of 2001) | ||
| ploticus |
 150px|A plot of Wikipedia statistics in Ploticus |
Command line, C | GPL | Yes | 2013 / 2.42 | Linux, Mac, Windows | plots and charts from data |
| Plotly |
 150px|A plot made using plotly |
GUI, command line Python |
Commercial | No | Any (web-based) | plots and charts in browser, web-sharing and exporting, drag-and-drop data import, Python command line | |
| plotutils |
command line, C/C++ |
GPL | Yes | 09|27}} / 2.6 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Collection of command line programs, C/C++ API | |
| PLplot |
 150px|3D surface plot |
Ada, C/C++/D, Fortran 77/90, C, C++, Java, Lisp, Lua, OCaml, Octave, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk | LGPL | Yes | 2017/ 5.13.0 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Many different output formats: CGM, GIF, Jpeg, Png, Latex, PBM, PDF, Postscript, SVG, XFig, Qt, wxWidgets |
| PSPP |
GUI, command line |
GPL |
Yes | 2017 / 1.0.0 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Statistical analysis of sampled data. Free replacement for SPSS.
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| QtiPlot |
GUI, Python | proprietary | No | 2017 / 0.9.9.11 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Python scriptable | |
| R |
 150px |
Third party |
GPL |
Yes | 2018 / 3.5.1("Feather Spray") | Linux, Mac, Windows | In addition to base graphics, has a large number of graphics packages including lattice and ggplot2.[4] Interoperabile with other free software packages.
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| ROOT |
 150px|ROOT plot showing regions of interest in a 2D distribution |
GUI, C++, Python, Ruby | LGPL | Yes | 2018 / 6.14.04 | Linux, Mac, Windows | De facto standard in high energy physics |
| RRDtool |
 150px|RRDtool |
Command line | GPL | Yes | 2017 / 1.7.0 | Linux, Windows | |
| S-PLUS |
Proprietary | No | 11 / 8.2 | Statistics | |||
| S |
Statistics | ||||||
| SAS System |
Proprietary | No | 2013 / 9.4 | Statistics | |||
| Scilab |
 150px|Scilab |
CeCILL | Yes | 2018 / 6.0.1 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Matrix system | |
| SciPy, NumPy, matplotlib modules for Python |
 150px|matplotlib |
Python, GUI, command line | BSD/matplotlib | Yes | 2017 / 0.19.1, 2017 / 1.13.1, 2017 / 2.0.2 | FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Extensive numerical and scientific library with MATLAB-style plotting |
| SOCR |
Statistics | ||||||
| Sonic Visualiser |
GUI |
GPL |
Yes | 2018 / 3.1.1 | Linux, MacOS, Windows
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| SPSS |
GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | / 25.0 | Statistics | ||
| Stata |
Proprietary | No | 2017 / 15.0 | Statistics | |||
| Statgraphics |
 thumb|Dynamic Response Surface Plot |
GUI | Proprietary | No | 2015 / 17.1.08 | Windows | Statistical software package for exploratory data analysis, dynamic data visualization, statistical modeling, design of experiments, time series forecasting, quality improvement and Six Sigma. |
| Statistical Lab |
2011 / 3.81 | ||||||
| Systat |
Proprietary | No | Statistics | ||||
| SymPy |
 150px|SymPy |
BSD | Yes | 2018 / 1.3 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Python library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics | |
| Sysquake |
GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | 2013 / 5.0 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | MATLAB compatible, interactive graphics | |
| SciDAVis |
 150px |
GUI, Python | GPL | Yes | 2018 / 1.23 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable |
| SigmaPlot |
GUI | proprietary | No | 2014 / 13.0.0 | Windows | ||
| TAChart |
 150px |
Charting library | modified LGPL | Yes | 2016 / 1.6.2 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Very flexible charting component for Lazarus / Free Pascal.
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| Tableau |
GUI | Proprietary | No | Windows | Spreadsheet | ||
| Tecplot |
 150px |
GUI | proprietary | No | 2016 | Linux, Mac, UNIX, Windows | Computational Fluid Dynamics
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| Teechart |
 150px |
Charting library | Open Source | Yes | 2018 | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android | Full set of chart types, maps & gauges, interactive, real-time, PNG, JPEG export, cross-browser support, integration with WordPress, Drupal, Node.js, Joomla, TypeScript, NuGet among others. |
| think-cell chart |
GUI | proprietary | No | Windows | Support for waterfall, Marimekko and Gantt charts. Direct integration into Microsoft PowerPoint.
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| Veusz |
 150px |
GUI, Python, command line | GPL | Yes | 2018 / 3.0.1 | Mac, Unix, Windows | Create publication-quality PS/PDF plots, Python scripting and plugin interface |
| Visifire |
Independent of server side scripting | Proprietary | No | 2014/ 5.1.7-0 | Mac, Windows | ||
| VisIt |
 150px |
GUI, C++, Python, and Java | BSD | Yes | 2018 / 2.13.2 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Designed to handle very large data sets |
| Webix |
JavaScript library |
GPLV3/ Proprietary[5] |
Yes | 2017 / 4.4 | Cross platforms, cross browsers | JavaScript/HTML5 based; More than 75 widgets and controls; Maps; Charts; DataTables; Organograms; Gauge charts | |
| World Programming System (WPS Analytics) |
GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | 2018 / 4.0 | AIX, Linux, Linux for Arm8 64-bit (AArch64), macOS, PowerLinux, POWER/System p/pSeries (LE), Solaris, Windows, Linux for System z, z/OS | Statistics. Handles very large data sets. Supports mixing Python, R, SAS and SQL languages within in a single user program | |
| XGraph |
GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | 2014 / v4.30 | Linux, Windows | Interactive and batch 2D data file plotting | |
| Zoho Office Suite |
GUI (web based) | Proprietary |
No | Any ( web-based application) |
Online spreadsheet | ||
Vector graphics
Vector graphics software can be used for manual graphing or for editing the output of another program. Please see:
A few online editors using vector graphics for specific needs have been created. This kind of creative interfaces work well together with data visualization tools like the ones above.
See also
References
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- ↑ "The Dap Project for Statistics and Graphics". https://www.gnu.org/software/dap/.
- ↑ "The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica". https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2024/01/the-story-continues-announcing-version-14-of-wolfram-language-and-mathematica/.
- ↑ Raspberry Pi now includes Mathematica and Wolfram Language for free | The Verge
- ↑ https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Graphics.html
- ↑ Webix - Buy
