List of information graphics software
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) | Price | ||||||
| WinPlotter |  |
GUI | Proprietary/MIT | No | $25 – $50 | Windows | 35 Different 2D/3D Charts, (Standard,Financial,Scientific,Statistical).; Fully Customizable Appearance.; Load Remote and local Databases, (MySQL,SQL-Server, Azure, Amazon AWS); Imports MS Excel,MSAccess, Text Files and Raw Data.; Analyses up to 25 charts Simultaneously.; 13 Different colour themes; Up to 20,000,000 data points per figure.; User Friendly Interface | |
| Simple Grapher | GUI | Proprietary | No | Free | Microsoft Windows | 2D and 3D Graph | ||
| Algebrator | GUI | Proprietary | No | $58.99 | 2009 / 4.2 | Linux, Mac OS X, Sugar, Windows | 2D graphs | |
| AIDA | Open interfaces and formats for particle physics data processing | |||||||
| AnyChart | charts, maps, stock charts, Gantt charts | JavaScript library, GUI | Proprietary[1] | No | $79 | All platforms/OS, all browsers | Flexible; JavaScript (HTML5) based; interactive; real-time updates; multi-level drill-downs; various types of charts, maps, stock charts, Gantt charts, dashboards. | |
| Baudline |  |
GUI | Proprietary/GPL | No | Free | July 21, 2010 / 1.08 | FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris | Signal analysis tool |
| ChartDirector | C++ (command line, Qt, MFC), .NET (C#, VB), Java, COM, VB6, VBA, VBScript, Javascript, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby, ColdFusion | Proprietary | No | $99 – $749 | June 15, 2015 / 6.0 | Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, Any (Java edition) | Extensive chart types; Realtime charts; Handles large data sets; Cross-platform; Command line, web and desktop usage; PDF, SVG and image outputs. | |
| D3js | [1] | JavaScript library | BSD | Yes | Free | November 22, 2016 / 4.4.0 | web browsers, js engines | static and dynamic presentations |
| DADiSP |  |
GUI, command line, SPL script language | Proprietary | No | October 29, 2015 / 6.7 B01 | Windows | Numerical analysis and signal processing with a spreadsheet-like interface | |
| DAP | GNU-style copyleft[2] | Yes | Free | April 16, 2014 / 3.10 | Statistics | |||
| Datacopia |  |
GUI (web based) | Freemium | No | Free, $4.99 – $29.99 | 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 | Free express, $169 – $299 std. and pro. | March 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 | Free | Any (Python) | Inactive as of 2005[update] | ||
| EditGrid | GUI (web based) | Free, or with subscription service | Any (Web-based application) | Online spreadsheet; service due to end May 1, 2014 | ||||
| EJS |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Creates ODE solving interactive, ready-to-publish Java applets | |
| Epi Info | GPL | Yes | Free | June 27, 2016 / 7.2 | Windows | Statistics | ||
| EViews | Proprietary | No | March 14, 2016 / 9.5 | Statistics | ||||
| EZL |  |
GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | Student $29, Professional $99 | Windows | Very fast at plotting and analyzing large data sets, real-time data acquisition, frequency stability, signal processing, curve fitting | |
| Fityk |  |
GUI, command line | GPL | Yes | €90 - €225 | May 25, 2015 / 1.3.0 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | specialized in curve fitting |
| FlexPro | Proprietary | No | MS Windows only | |||||
| FreeMat |  |
GPL[3] | Yes | Free | June 30, 2013 / 4.2 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | ||
| FusionCharts |  |
GUI (web based), JavaScript Charting Library | Proprietary | No | Free for Personal Use, $1,299 – $9,999 | 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 |  |
GUI | GPL[4] | Yes | Free | November 25, 2016 / 5.0.297.0 | 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 |  |
GUI | GPLv3 / CDDL 1.0 | Yes | Free | February 14, 2016 / 0.9.1 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Networks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs |
| ggplot2 | R | GPL2 | Yes | Free | March 1, 2016 / 2.1.0 | Cross-platform | Based on "The Grammar of Graphics" | |
| Gnumeric | GUI | GPL[5] | Yes | Free | August 20, 2016 / 1.12.32 | Cross-platform | Spreadsheet | |
| GNU Octave |  |
GUI, command line, C, C++, Fortran | GPL | Yes | Free | November 13, 2016 4.2.0 | 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, third-party GUIs | Own license | Yes | Free | October 10, 2016 5.0.5 | Amiga, Atari ST, BeOS, Linux, Mac, MS-DOS, OS/2, OS-9/68k, Ultrix, Windows, VMS | Built in scripting language |
| GrADS | GPL | Yes | Free | June 20, 2016 / 2.1.0 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX, DEC Alpha, IRIX | Visualization of Earth science data | ||
| GLE | Command line, GUI | BSD / GPL | Yes | Free | August 18, 2015 / 4.2.5f | 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 | February 14, 2015 / 5.1.25 | Linux, Mac(X11), Windows (cygwin) | Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr |
| Graphviz | DOT language | CPL | Yes | Free | April 13, 2014 / 2.38 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | ||
| gretl | GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | November 26, 2016 / 2016d | Linux, Mac, Windows | Specialized in econometrics and time series analyses, built-in scripting language, interface to gnuplot and R | |
| High-D | GUI | Proprietary | No | $139 | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | Parallel coordinates | ||
| HippoDraw | GPL v2 | Yes | Free | October 2007 1.21.3 | C++-based data analysis system | |||
| 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 |
October 25, 2016 / 7.0.1 | Mac, Windows | 3D and volume visualization, Curve and peak fitting, Signal processing, Image processing |
| ILNumerics | Math library for .NET / C# | GPL / proprietary | free / €999 | June 11, 2015 / v4.8 | Windows and Linux | Math library with rich visualization features (interactive 3D scenes, scientific plotting) and Matlab-like syntax. | ||
| Ipe |  |
GUI, XML | GPL | Yes | Free | September 19, 2016 / 7.2.6 | 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 |  |
GUI, Java, Groovy | LGPL | Yes | Free | July 31, 2014 / 1.0.19 | Any (Java) | |
| KChart |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | February 3, 2016 / 2.9.11 | 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 | July 23, 2016 / 2.3.0 | Linux (KDE) | |
| LabVIEW | Proprietary | No | $999–9699 | August 2016 / 2016 | Visual circuits modeling | |||
| LiSiCA |  |
Python | No | Free | 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 | Student ed.: freeware Pro ed.: $149 ($74.50 Academic) |
September 18, 2016 / 2.7.2 | Any (Java) | Nonlinear fitting, batch processing | |
| Maple |  |
GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | $1895 | March 16, 2016 / 2016 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | |
| MathCad | GUI | Proprietary | No | $1195 | November 2015 / 15.0 M045 | Windows | Simple GUI driven interface | |
| Mathematica |  |
GUI, command line, C++ | Proprietary | No | Personal US$295, Government US$2,870, Commercial US$3,185 | September 28, 2016 / 11.0.1 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Raspberry Pi[6] | Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language. See Wolfram Language. |
| MathGL | Library, command line | GPL | Yes | Linux, Windows | Qt, FLTK, OpenGL interfaces. Can be used even from console programs | |||
| MATLAB |  |
GUI | Proprietary | No | September 15, 2016 / R2016b | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Matrix system | |
| Maxima | GUI, command line | GPL | Yes | Free | May 12, 2016 5.38.1 | BSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Unix Like OS, Windows | Various graphical user interfaces, Support LaTex with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with SageMath | |
| MayaVi |  |
GUI, Python, scriptable, embeddable | BSD | Yes | Free | January 15, 2015 / 4.4.0 | GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Visualises computational grids, scalar/vector/tensor data. Texture & ray-cast mappers. |
| MedCalc | GUI | Proprietary | No | $395 | September 27, 2016 / 16.8.4 | Windows | Statistics | |
| Microsoft Excel | GUI | Proprietary | No | Mac OS X, Windows | Spreadsheet | |||
| NCSS (statistical software) | GUI | Proprietary | No | $429 | May 2, 2016 / NCSS 11 | Windows | Statistical Analysis and Statistical Graphics software | |
| Nucalc | GUI | proprietary | No | Non-freeUS$100[7] | Mac OS, Mac OS X, Windows | |||
| Numbers (iWork) | GUI | Proprietary | No | Mac OS X | Spreadsheet | |||
| OpenDX | GUI | Proprietary | No | Cross-platform | ||||
| OpenOffice.org Calc | GUI | GNU LGPL | Yes | Free | Cross-platform | Spreadsheet | ||
| OpenPlaG |  |
GUI | GPL | Yes | Free | Any (PHP 5) | graph plotter | |
| Orange |  |
GUI, Python scripting | GPL | Yes | Free | October 11, 2016 / 3.3.8 | GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X | A visual programming data-flow software suite with widgets for statistical data analysis, interactive data visualization, data mining, and machine learning. |
| Origin | GUI, COM, C/C++ and scripting | proprietary | No | Non-freeUS$ 1095 (std) 1800 (pro) 850 (academic pro) 69/yr. (student)[7] |
October 23, 2015 / 2016 | 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. | |
| Paraview | GUI, Python scripting | GPL | Yes | Free | November 15, 2016 / 5.2.0 | Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, Windows | Parallel scientific and Computational Fluid Dynamics visualizations | |
| PDL |  |
Artistic License / GPL | Yes | Free | October 8, 2016 / 2.017 | Perl Data Language | ||
| PGPLOT | FORTRAN, C | No | Free for non commercial | Linux, Mac, Windows | (Fortran) California Institute of Technology, Inactive as of 2001[update] | |||
| Physics Plot | GUI | proprietary | No | Non-freeUS$100 | Windows (visualbasic) | |||
| ploticus |  |
Command line, C | GPL | Yes | Free | May 2013 / 2.42 | Linux, Mac, Windows | plots and charts from data |
| Plotly |  |
GUI, command line Python | Commercial | No | Free | 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 | Free | September 27, 2009 / 2.6 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Collection of command line programs, C/C++ API | |
| 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 | July 23, 2016 / 0.10.2 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Statistical analysis of sampled data. Free replacement for SPSS. | |
| QtiPlot | GUI, Python | proprietary | No | Non-free. Various rates for Annual subscriptions[8] | October 4, 2016 / 0.9.9.7 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Python scriptable | |
| R |  |
Third party | GPL | Yes | Free | October 31, 2016 / 3.3.2 | Linux, Mac, Windows | In addition to base graphics, has a large number of graphics packages including lattice and ggplot2.[9] Interoperabile with other free software packages. |
| ROOT |  |
GUI, C++, Python, Ruby | LGPL | Yes | Free | November 4, 2016 / 6.08/00 | Linux, Mac, Windows | De facto standard in high energy physics |
| RRDtool |  |
Command line | GPL | Yes | Free | May 9, 2016 / 1.6.0 | Linux, Windows | |
| S-PLUS | Proprietary | No | Statistics | |||||
| S | Statistics | |||||||
| SAS System | Proprietary | No | July 10, 2013 / 9.4 | Statistics | ||||
| DataMelt |  |
GUI, Java, Jython, BeanShell, JRuby scripting | LGPL | Yes | Free | July 31, 2016 / 1.6 | Any (Java), Android | Multi-platform, IDE with code assist, Jython/Python scripting |
| Scilab |  |
CeCILL | Yes | Free | April 1, 2015 / 5.5.2 | 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 | March 15, 2016 / 24.0 | Statistics | |||
| Stata | Proprietary | No | April 7, 2015 / 14.0 | Statistics | ||||
| Statgraphics |  |
GUI | Proprietary | No | $30–$2,414 | July 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 | May 2, 2011 / 3.81 | |||||||
| Systat | Proprietary | No | Statistics | |||||
| SymPy |  |
BSD | Yes | Free | March 8, 2016 / 1.0 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Python library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics | |
| Sysquake | GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | $250 (LE free) | November 5, 2013 / 5.0 | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | MATLAB compatible, interactive graphics | |
| SciDAVis |  |
GUI, Python | GPL | Yes | Free | July 29, 2016 / 1.14 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Qt4-based GUI, Python scriptable |
| SigmaPlot | GUI | proprietary | No | Non-freeCommercial US$799, Government US$699, Commercial US$549 | 2014 / 13.0.0 | Windows | ||
| TAChart |  |
Charting library | modified LGPL | Yes | Free | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows | Very flexible charting component for Lazarus / Free Pascal. | |
| Tableau | GUI | Proprietary | No | $999 – $1800 | Windows | Spreadsheet | ||
| Tecplot |  |
GUI | proprietary | No | /360/purchase.aspx varies | 2016 / 2016 | Linux, Mac, UNIX, Windows | Computational Fluid Dynamics |
| Teechart |  |
Charting library | Commercial | No | Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, WP7/8, iOS, Android, BlackBerry | Charting, Gauge and Map components for .NET, Delphi VCL, FireMonkey, ActiveX, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Android, Windows Phone, iPhone/iPad and BlackBerry. | ||
| TreeMap | GUI | Proprietary | No | $259 | 2016/ 3.8.0 | 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 | November 26, 2016 / 1.25 | Mac, Unix, Windows | Create publication-quality PS/PDF plots, Python scripting and plugin interface |
| Visifire | Independent of server side scripting | Proprietary | No | $149 | June 5, 2014 / 5.1.7-0 | Mac, Windows | ||
| VisIt |  |
GUI, C++, Python, and Java | BSD | Yes | Free | November 2016 / 2.12 | Linux, Mac, Windows | Designed to handle very large data sets |
| Webix | Demos | JavaScript library | GPLV3/Proprietary[10] | Yes | $469 | November 23, 2016 / 4.0 | Cross platforms, cross browsers | JavaScript/HTML5 based; More than 75 widgets and controls; Maps; Charts; DataTables; Organograms; Gauge charts |
| World Programming System (WPS) | GUI, command line | Proprietary | No | April 2016 / 3.2.2 | AIX, Linux, Mac, Solaris, Windows, z/Linux, z/OS | Statistics. Handles Big Data[clarification needed] | ||
| 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) | Online spreadsheet | |||
Vector graphics
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
A few online editors using vector graphics for specific needs have been created.[citation needed] This kind of creative interfaces work well together with data visualization tools like the ones above.[citation needed]
See also
References
- ^ AnyChart - Buy
- ^ "The Dap Project for Statistics and Graphics". Retrieved 22 April 2016.
- ^ "Homepage". FreeMat website. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
- ^ The International GeoGebra Institute (April 2013). "GeoGebra Non-Commercial License Agreement". GeoGebra website. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
- ^ "Welcome to Gnumeric!". Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
- ^ Raspberry Pi now includes Mathematica and Wolfram Language for free | The Verge
- ^ a b MSRP for full version. Discounted downloads and academic discounts might be available.
- ^ QtiPlot pricing
- ^ https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Graphics.html
- ^ Webix - Buy