On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 01:18:48PM -0500, Mike Miller wrote: > >> It always depends on what your goals are. For aspiring scientists, > >> especially those who need to do statistical and/or probabilistic work, > >> I recommend learning GNU R. It also makes nice graphs. It is the king > >> of the stat packages now and that will continue. > > > > Matplotlib (a python library) by default produces better-looking graphs > > than R. You can of course tweak both, but for quick graphs I prefer the > > former. > > Very interesting. Are there good screenshots somewhere? http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html vs. http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/ > Is it hard to > learn to make graphs in Matplotlib starting from, say, a tab-delimited > data file? Not at all: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/scatter_demo.html florin -- Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100326/92f7819e/attachment.pgp