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Gnuplot in Action, Second Edition
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Gnuplot in Action, Second Edition

by Philipp K. Janert
March 2016
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
18h 17m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Gnuplot in Action, Second Edition

Chapter 3. The heart of the matter: the plot command

This chapter covers

  • Plotting functions and data
  • Math with gnuplot
  • Inline transformations
  • Logarithmic plots
  • Smoothing data

In gnuplot, you use the plot command to create plots of functions and data. It is, hands down, the most frequently used and most important of all gnuplot commands. In this chapter, we’ll take a systematic look at the plot command and the ways it can be used.

You’ll begin by making simple plots of functions and data. Then I’ll introduce inline transformations: gnuplot can apply arbitrary transformations to the data as it’s being plotted. You’ll learn how to use this useful feature after we take a quick detour to describe how to do math with gnuplot. Logarithmic ...

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