Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Listings

Foreword

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About This Book

1. Basics

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. Data analysis and visualization concepts

1.2.2. Why graphical analysis?

1.2.3. 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

1.4. Summary

Chapter 2. 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 and exporting

2.2.1. Saving and loading commands

2.2.2. Exporting graphs

2.2.3. One-step export script

2.3. Summary

Chapter 3. Working with data

3.1. Managing large data sets

3.1.1. Multiple data sets per file: index

3.1.2. Records spanning multiple lines: every

3.2. Smoothing and summarizing data

3.2.1. Plotting unsorted data files

3.2.2. Smoothing noisy data

3.3. Math with gnuplot

3.3.1. Mathematical expressions

3.3.2. Built-in functions

3.3.3. User-defined variables and functions

3.3.4. Complex numbers

3.7. Summary