Copyright
Brief Table of Contents
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings
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