Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Praise for the First Edition

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

1. Getting started

Chapter 1. Prelude: understanding data with gnuplot

1.1. A busy weekend

1.1.1. Planning a marathon

1.1.2. Determining the future

1.2. What is graphical analysis?

1.2.1. Why graphical analysis?

1.2.2. Limitations of graphical analysis

1.3. What is gnuplot?

1.3.1. Gnuplot isn’t GNU

1.3.2. Why gnuplot?

1.3.3. Limitations

1.3.4. Gnuplot 5: the best gnuplot there ever was!

1.4. Summary

Chapter 2. Tutorial: essential gnuplot

2.1. Simple plots

2.1.1. Invoking gnuplot and first plots

2.1.2. Plotting data from a file

2.1.3. Abbreviations and defaults

2.2. Saving commands and exporting graphics

2.2.1. Saving and loading commands

2.2.2. Exporting graphs

2.3. Managing options with set and show

2.4. Getting help

2.5. Summary

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

3.1. Plotting functions and data

3.1.1. Plotting functions

3.1.2. Plotting data

3.2. Math with gnuplot

3.2.1. Mathematical expressions

3.2.2. Built-in functions

3.2.3. User-defined variables and functions

3.2.4. Mathematically undefined values and NaN (not a number)

3.3. Data transformations