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A plot is the graphical representation of a mathematical function or a set of data. There are different types of plots, such as line plots, bar plots, or scatter plots.

Wikipedia uses the following definition of plot:

A plot is a graphical technique for representing a data set, usually as a graph showing the relationship between two or more variables. Graphs are a visual representation of the relationship between variables, very useful to quickly derive an understanding which would not come from lists of values.

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What is a good, default backend for matplotlib

I've decided to setup a custom matplotlibrc, and thus I need to pick a backend for matplotlib. What is the best one in terms of not needing to install other additional packages? I tend to use matplotlib via ipython --pylab, so I want interactive…
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LibreOffice Calc - plot a basic graph

I can't quite believe I'm having to ask this, but I can't work out how to get LibreOffice Calc to plot a basic graph. I have this data :- C R 11 8.76 22 5.47 44 8.24 53 7.00 36 6.81 36 7.00 34 7.71 23 5.85 32 7.84 45 8.34 26 6.64 I…
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Plot simple functions like sine of x with IPython

My teacher plotted some functions with Jupyter Notebook or IPython. I have installed Jupyter Notebook and have the home screen, but how can I plot a function? I have already tried: plot sin(x) but I get this message: File…
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Where is the IPython output image?

I tried to follow the examples at Quantum Circuit Plotting with SymPy but I could not find the output picture. My OS is Ubuntu and I typed all the commands in the terminal of IPython, as you can see here: The output is similar to the one in that…
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Software for polar-coordinate plots

I'm looking for easy software which can create 3d plot with polar coordinates (cylindrical coordinates) from a csv file (or pasted from eg. libre office). Making a trend-surface or sth like it would be useful too. I want also to have only 90 degree…
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Can anyone please tell which is the best software in ubuntu to plot graph against data?

Can anyone please let me know which is the best software in ubuntu to plot graph against data??
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How can a spectrogram of a sound be plotted between a defined upper and lower frequency bound?

I would like to plot a spectrogram of a sound between a range of frequencies, specifically from 0 kHz to 2000 Hz. Using SoX (sox sound.wav -n spectrogram -x 1000 -y 800), I have been able to make a plot, but I have not been able to set the vertical…
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stata very slow to plot graphs in Ubuntu and others Debian based distro (elementary, debian)

For those who have tried to use stata under linux, probably already encountered some issues related to the icons and libpng12 library... while I could get those fixed and stata starts normally and display the icons, somehow, stata takes really long…
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How to use GNU Octave instead of Minitab

As a university student, we have to solve some problems and class activity using a Windows app called Minitab, while I don't use any other operating system except Linux. I installed GNU Octave and statistics package, but when I searched for any…
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create scatter plot

file (1. arg) will create (scatter plot) for n. column (x-axis, 2. arg) and m. column (y-axis, 3. arg) function is called myfun sourcefile 1 3 for scatter plot of 1. and 3. column from file sourcefile. #!/bin/bash/gnuplot myfun(){ plot "$1" using…
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Octave 2d Plotting time series - line not connecting markers (precision error)

Relevant info: Octave version...5.2.0 pkgs used: io-2.6.2 tablicious-0.3.5 Ubuntu version- 20.04.4 LTS Hi! I'm reading timestamp and temperature data from an xlsx spreadsheet into Octave. I'm running into an interesting issue however. I'm able to…
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How can I plot data from sc in the terminal?

Using the sc (Spreadsheet Calculator) or (Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised) sc-im (more) I can manage spreadsheets in the terminal. Is there a way to plot this data in the terminal, too? I've found termgraph, which allows to plot in the terminal,…
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Plotting with xmgrace using bash

I'm using Xmgrace to plot my data. I wanted to make my life easier and I started to write a bash script, so I don't have to plot the data manually. In order to save the figures, I wrote this to the code: device "eps" op "level2" print to…
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Not able to plot band structure in p4vasp

Not able to plot band structure in p4vasp. Runtime error is: vivek@vivek-Lenovo-Flex-2-14:~/apps$ p4v (p4v.py:5002): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support for `gnome': libgnome.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or…
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Octave gives the error unable to open X11 Display, when trying to plot graphs

When attempting to plot graphs in python 2.7 using matplotlib or Octave the program stalls and needs to be closed. Octave gives the following errors on startup: No protocol specified octave: unable to open X11 DISPLAY octave: disabling GUI features…
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