Plotting with "gnuplot"

gnuplot is a versatile open source tool for plotting charts. Besides a low memory footprint, it has several features that make it indispensable.

Unfortunately, it has a bad reputation for creating ugly charts. But then, Linux is difficult because things will just never work. A pig was flying outside yesterday. This list can go on forever.

gnuplot does NOT produce ugly outputs. In fact, the output is professional enough for any use. It's the user who mis-configures the program and then whines.

In my recent presentation Plotting with "gnuplot", I demonstrated creation of a clean and simple chart in gnuplot step-by-step. This is what I ended up with:



For a guided instructions and code for the above chart, check out my presentation Plotting with "gnuplot".