List of information graphics software
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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) | Operating system | Distinguishing features | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | Open Source (yes/no) | Price | ||||||
| Algebrator | GUI | Proprietary | No | $58.99 | Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows | 2D graphs | ||
| Baudline |  |
GUI | Proprietary | No, source available | Free | FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris | Signal analysis tool | |
| CanvasJS HTML5 Chart | Browser Based | CC / Commercial | Yes | Free for non-commercial, $299 Commercial License | Any (web-based) | HTML5 Based - works across all devices | ||
| curios.IT |  |
Interactive 3D | Proprietary | No | Free, 10$ for iPad | Windows, iPad, web browsers | Designed for the exploration of multivariate data | |
| D3js | [1] | Javascript library | BSD | Yes | Free | web browsers, js engines | static and dynamic presentations | |
| DADiSP |  |
GUI, command line, SPL script language | Proprietary | No | UNIX, Windows | Numerical analysis and signal processing with a spreadsheet-like interface | ||
| DAP | Statistics | |||||||
| DataScene | GUI | Shareware | No | Free express, $169 – $299 std. and pro. | Linux, Unix/X11, Windows | 2D & 3D graphing, animated graphs, data analysis, curve fitting, and data monitoring. | ||
| Descartes (plotting tool) | GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Any (Python) | Inactive as of 2005 | ||
| EditGrid | GUI (Web based) | Free, or with subscription service | Any (Web-based application) | Online spreadsheet | ||||
| EJS |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Creates ODE solving interactive, ready-to-publish Java applets | |
| Epi Info | GPL | Yes | Free | Windows | Statistics | |||
| EpsTk | Toolkit for use with MATLAB and GNU Octave | GPL | Yes | Free | Any (Octave or MATLAB) | |||
| EViews | Proprietary | No | Statistics | |||||
| Fityk |  |
GUI, Command line | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | specialized in curve fitting | |
| FlexPro | Proprietary | No | MS Windows only | |||||
| FreeMat |  |
Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | ||||
| GeoGebra |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | 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 |  |
GUI | GPLv3 / CDDL 1.0 | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs | |
| Gnumeric | GUI | GNU GPL | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | Spreadsheet | ||
| GNU Octave |  |
GUI, command line, C, C++, Fortran | GPL | Yes | Free | eComStation, FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, OS/2, Solaris or Windows | MATLAB compatible, built-in ODE and DAE solvers, extensive user contributed toolboxes | |
| Gnuplot |  |
Command line, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk | own licence | Yes | Free | Amiga, Atari ST, BeOS, Linux, Mac, MS-DOS, OS/2, OS-9/68k, Ultrix, Windows, VMS | Built in scripting language | |
| GrADS | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX, DEC Alpha, IRIX | Visualization of Earth science data | |||
| GLE | Command line, GUI | BSD / GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | Graphics scripting language | ||
| GraphPad Prism | GUI | proprietary | No | academic US$450, student US$300 | Mac, Windows | |||
| Grace |  |
Command line, GUI, various APIs | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac(X11), Windows (cygwin) | Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr | |
| Graphviz | DOT language | CPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | |||
| gretl | GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | Specialized in econometrics and time series analyses, built-in scripting language, interface to gnuplot and R | ||
| IDPS | GUI, Fortran, C, Python, Socket Server | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, OSF1/True64, Solaris, Windows | Uses Qt 3/Qt 4, runs as a server | ||
| IGOR Pro |  |
GUI | proprietary | No | Non-free standard US$550 academic US$395 student $US85 |
Mac, Windows | 3D and volume visualization, Curve and peak fitting, Signal processing, Image processing | |
| JFreeChart |  |
GUI, Java, Groovy | LGPL | Yes | Free | Any (Java) | ||
| SCaViS |  |
GUI, Java, Jython, BeanShell, JRuby scripting | LGPL | Yes | Free | Any (Java), Android | Multi-platform, IDE with code assist, Jython/Python scripting | |
| KChart |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux (KDE) | ||
| Kig | GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Geometry diagrams only | |||
| kst |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux (KDE), Windows (beta) | ||
| LabPlot |  |
GUI, Qt scripting | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux (KDE) | ||
| LabVIEW | Proprietary | No | ||||||
| Maple |  |
GUI, Command line | No | $1895 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | |||
| MathCad | GUI | No | $1195 | Windows | Simple GUI driven interface | |||
| Mathematica |  |
GUI, Command line, C++ | No | $2495 | HPUX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows | Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language | ||
| MATLAB |  |
GUI | Proprietary | No | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Matrix system | ||
| Maxima | GUI, Command line | GPL | Yes | Free | BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix Like OS, Windows | Various graphical user interfaces, Support LaTex with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with Sage | ||
| Mayavi |  |
GUI, Python, scriptable, embedable | BSD | Yes | Free | GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Visualises computational grids, scalar/vector/tensor data. Texture & ray-cast mappers. | |
| MedCalc | GUI | Proprietary | No | $395 | Windows | Statistics | ||
| Microsoft Excel | GUI | Proprietary | No | Mac OS X, Windows | Spreadsheet | |||
| Nucalc | GUI | proprietary | No | Non-freeUS$100[1] | Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows | |||
| Numbers (iWork) | GUI | Proprietary | No | Mac OS X | Spreadsheet | |||
| OpenOffice.org Calc | GUI | GNU LGPL | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | Spreadsheet | ||
| OpenPlaG |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Any (PHP 5) | graph plotter | |
| Origin |  |
GUI, COM, C/C++ and scripting | proprietary | No | Non-freeUS$ 950(std) 1500 (pro) 50(student)[1] |
Windows | ||
| Paraview | GUI, Python scripting | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Windows | Parallel scientific and Computational Fluid Dynamics visualizations | ||
| PDL |  |
Free | Perl Data Language | |||||
| PGPLOT | FORTRAN, C | No | Free for non commercial | Linux, Mac, Windows | (Fortran) California Institute of Technology | Inactive as of 2001 | ||
| Physics Plot | GUI | proprietary | No | Non-freeUS$100 | Windows (visualbasic) | |||
| ploticus |  |
Command line, C | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | plots and charts from data | |
| plotly |  |
GUI, Python | Commercial | No | Free | Any (web-based) | plots and charts in browser, web-sharing and exporting, drag-and-drop data import, Python command line | |
| PLplot |  |
Ada, C/C++/D, Fortran 77/90, C, C++, Java, Lisp, Lua, OCaml, Octave, Perl, Python, Tcl/Tk | LGPL | Yes | Free | 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 | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | Statistical analysis of sampled data. Free replacement for SPSS. | ||
| ProfilePlot | GUI | Proprietary | No | $139 | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | Parallel coordinates | ||
| QtiPlot | GUI, Python | GPL | Yes | free if compiled from source or can be obtained and used for an Annual subscription [2] | Linux, Mac, Windows | Python scriptable | ||
| R |  |
third Party | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | Interoperabile with other free software packages. | |
| ROOT |  |
GUI, C++, Python, Ruby | LGPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | De facto standard in high energy physics | |
| RRDtool |  |
Command line | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Windows | ||
| S-PLUS | Proprietary | No | Statistics | |||||
| S-Lang | Statistics | |||||||
| S-Lang | ||||||||
| SAS System | Proprietary | No | Statistics | |||||
| Scilab |  |
CeCILL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Matrix system | ||
| SciPy, NumPy, matplotlib modules for Python |  |
Python, GUI, command line | BSD/matplotlib | Yes | Free | FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Extensive numerical and scientific library with MATLAB-style plotting | |
| SOCR | Statistics | |||||||
| SPSS | GUI, Command Line | Proprietary | No | Statistics | ||||
| Stata | Proprietary | No | Statistics | |||||
| Statgraphics | GUI | Proprietary | No | $695 | Windows | Statistical software package for exploratory data analysis, statistical modeling, design of experiments, time series forecasting, quality improvement and Six Sigma. | ||
| Statistical Lab | ||||||||
| Systat | Proprietary | No | Statistics | |||||
| SymPy |  |
BSD | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Python library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics | ||
| Sysquake | GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | $250 (LE free) | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | MATLAB compatible, interactive graphics | ||
| SciDAVis |  |
GUI, Python | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable | |
| SigmaPlot | GUI | proprietary | No | Non-freeCommercial US$799, Government US$699, Commercial US$549 | Windows | |||
| Tableau | GUI | Proprietary | No | $999 – $1800 | Windows | Spreadsheet | ||
| Tecplot |  |
GUI | proprietary | No | varies | Linux, Mac, UNIX, Windows | Computational Fluid Dynamics | |
| Teechart | Charting library | Commercial | Yes | Linux, Windows | Charting, Gauge and Map components for .NET, VCL, ActiveX, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Android, Windows Phone 7, iPhone/iPad and BlackBerry. | |||
| TreeMap | GUI | Proprietary | No | $259 | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Web | Treemapping | ||
| think-cell chart | GUI | proprietary | No | Annual subscription | Windows | Support for waterfall, Marimekko and Gantt charts. Direct integration into Microsoft PowerPoint. | ||
| Veusz |  |
GUI, Python, Command line | GPL | Yes | Free | Mac, Unix, Windows | Create publication-quality PS/PDF plots, Python scripting and plugin interface | |
| Visifire | Independent of Server side Scripting | GPL | Yes | Free | Mac, Windows | |||
| VisIt |  |
GUI, C++, Python, and Java | BSD | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac, Windows | Designed to handle very large data sets | |
| World Programming System (WPS) | GUI, Command Line | Proprietary | No | AIX, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows, z/Linux, z/OS | Statistics. Handles Big Data | |||
| XGraph | GUI, Command Line | Proprietary | No | Free | Linux, Windows | Interactive and batch 2D data file plotting | ||
| Zoho Office Suite | GUI (Web based) | Proprietary | No | Any (Web-based application) | ||||
Vector graphics[edit]
Vector graphics software can be used for manual graphing or for editing the output of another program. Please see:
- Category:Vector graphics editors
- List of vector graphics editors
- Comparison of vector graphics editors
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b MSRP for full version. Discounted downloads and academic discounts might be available.
- ^ QtiPlot pricing
