SciDAVis (''Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization'') is an

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computer program for interactive scientific graphing and

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. Development started in 2007 as

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, which in turn is a clone of the proprietary program

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Features

SciDAVis can generate different types of 2D and 3D plots (such as line, scatter, bar, pie, and surface plots) from data that is either imported from ASCII files, entered by hand, or calculated using formulas. The data is held in spreadsheets, which are referred to as tables with column-based data (typically X and Y values for 2D plots) or matrices (for 3D plots). The spreadsheets, as well as graphs and note windows, are gathered in a project and can be organized using folders. The built-in analysis operations include column/row statistics, (de)convolution, FFT and FFT-based filters. Curve fitting can be performed with user-defined or built-in linear and nonlinear functions, including multi-peak fitting, based on the

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. The plots can be exported to several bitmap formats,

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or SVG. Note windows support in-place evaluation of mathematical expressions or an optional scripting interface to

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History

SciDAVis was founded by Tilman Benkert and Knut Franke in 2007 as a

, after disagreements arose with Ion Vasilief, the founder and main developer of the project. Franke has stated that the topics of disagreement included "design goals, management of community resources and the right way to make money from a free software project". In 2008, developers of SciDAVis and

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"found their project goals to be very similar" and "decided to start a close cooperation" with the aim of merging their code into a common backend, while maintaining "two frontends, one with full KDE4 integration (called LabPlot 2.x) and one with no KDE dependencies (pure Qt so to say) for easier cross-platform use (called SciDAVis)". This never actually happened, and 10 years later both continue to be separate parallel projects without any kind of (at least publicly available) collaboration, joint agreement or declaration/proposal, code merging, not any other way of cooperation or joint efforts. After stalled development for several years, updates to SciDAVis have resumed.

Release history

* 2007-08-05: Release 0.1.0 * 2007-12-21: Release 0.1.1 * 2008-02-03: Release 0.1.2 * 2008-04-19: Release 0.1.3 * 2009-02-10: Release 0.1.4 * 2009-02-14: Release 0.2.0 * 2009-03-09: Release 0.2.1 * 2009-04-20: Release 0.2.2 * 2009-07-12: Release 0.2.3 * 2010-03-12: Release 0.2.4 * 2014-01-23: Release 1.D1 * 2014-02-05: Release 1.D4 * 2014-03-21: Release 1.D5 * 2014-08-26: Release 1.D8 * 2015-11-24: Release 1.D9 * 2016-06-05: Release 1.D13 * 2016-07-29: Release 1.14 * 2017-06-01: Release 1.17 * 2017-06-21: Release 1.18 * 2017-07-19: Release 1.19 * 2017-08-09: Release 1.21 * 2017-10-22: Release 1.22 * 2018-06-04: Release 1.23 * 2019-03-05: Release 1.25 * 2019-12-18: Release 1.26 * 2020-04-30: Release 2.1 * 2020-06-12: Release 2.3 * 2021-05-05: Release 2.4

References

External links

SciDAVis website

SciDAVis project page at Sourceforge

SciDAVis repository at GitHub

LabPlot and SciDAVis Collaborate on the Future of Free Scientific Plotting - KDE News

openSUSE packages

Debian packages
(included in the Debian repository)

(maintained by Russell Standish through ttps://build.opensuse.org/ openSUSE Build Service {{DEFAULTSORT:Scidavis Free educational software Free plotting software Free software programmed in C++ Free software programmed in Python Plotting software Software that uses Qt

Features

History

Release history

See also

References

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