Gnuplot in Action

Chapter 10. Advanced plotting concepts

This chapter covers

• Combining graphs with multiplot mode
• Advanced math features in gnuplot
• Curve fitting

This is the last chapter in which we’re going to talk about gnuplot’s graphing features. In the next two chapters, we’ll talk about different ways of exporting graphs to files and about scripting gnuplot for batch mode, before turning our attention to the things we can find out using graphs. But before we can leave gnuplot’s plotting commands behind, we still have to finish off some topics that we haven’t mentioned so far.

In the next section, I’ll introduce gnuplot’s multiplot feature, a way to combine different plots in a single graph. In the remainder of this chapter, we’ll look at ways of visualizing ...