Programming based are also nice, I found " Origin 9 " as good option specially for plotting graphs which can not be plotted using excel.

I like Graphpad Prism for being very easy to use and having a very good integration with statistics (for non-statisticians).

I use it for all my graphs in publications and and any data tratment with statistics and curve fitting which Excel is useless for. I also ask my students to use it for graphs and statistics.

There is a 30 d demo version http://www.graphpad.com/demos/.

Origion 8 is best

I have started to use gnuplot and it is very powerful. I have been recommended microcal origin and R. I dont think excel is great for publication quality graphics.

I prefer Matlab since I can also process the data, i.e. noise filtering or parameters calculation through formulas before plotting. In addition the plots look proffesional and I can save the scripts with all the parameters for reusing them without the need to setup again the figure appearance.

@Murtaza.

The link for the Graphpad demo is given in my answer. Just select Windows or Mac.

It is here again.

http://www.graphpad.com/demos/.

The answer to this question should not be seen as advertizing. On the other hand, for a young researcher confronted with the existing alternatives, a good advice can prove to be financially beneficial.

MS Excel has greatly improved in the latest versions, but not to the point of producing plots for high standard journals. Matlab's "plot" command is better in this respect, but many plot details require "try & error" since help is brief. I have seen KaleidaGraph working with very good results. For higher price and more options (e.g. data processing): Graphpad and Origin are excellent choices. OrginPro can be configured for the each journal figure template and has all imaginable figure options.

I worked with MS Excel, TecPlot and Origin Pro - I feel Origin Pro is the best because of its high quality and clear graphical output

Hi

Please see: www.graphpad.com/scientific-software/prism/

For those who like the R statistical environment, ggplot2 is intuitive and flexible with a robust community of users.  Further, the figures produced are publication quality.

http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/

http://ggplot2.org/

Perhaps, the most powerful and flexible is Matplotlib, python 2D plotting library. I use it  as a part of the Anaconda package.  What is especially nice, the program is absolutely free.

http://matplotlib.org/

https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/

Another possible alternative would be Veusz

http://home.gna.org/veusz/

It's free, plots nicely and comes with tutorials.

For plotting pre-existing data (i.e. data files on the hard drive) I use ezl. It's fast and easy and provides fft, smoothing & filtering, curve fitting, etc. It's not free but cheaper than excel and much cheaper than matlab. Also, to zoom in & out and/or crop data, you just draw a box around the data on the plot -- not so easy in matlab or excel.

http://www.ezlsoftware.com

R easily has the best free, open-source tools for plotting almost anything imaginable, and if a library to meet your specific needs isn't available, you can create your own. I can't find a pay-for-license software package that compares either, unless you are plotting simple graphs and don't care to spend 1-2 days to learn how to do so in R.

With brightstat.com you can create and customize interactive charts as well as charts ready to print from your data. brightstat.com works as a web-app so you can work on your graphs using any webbrowser on any desktop or tablet computer

https://secure.brightstat.com

I don't know much about plotting tools. Up to my knowledge, if you want plot the data, the open sources like gnuplot, sage are good. Apart from those MATLAB, Mathematica are the tools working good. 

qtiplot is not free, free only demo version

Also, this:

https://plot.ly/

There are APIs and libraries for R and python as well if you prefer that environment.

The best software for plotting is SigmaPlot, just download it and try it, I am sure you will not leave it .

SigmaPlot and OriginPro are good softwares

So, good suggestions. I have been using gnuplot, R, and sometimes OpenCalc.

Among freewares, SciDavis is very good and easy to use. Did not see anyone mention it. Publication quality graphs or not I can't tell exactly but the graphs are good looking.

There is an overview of what you can do with R, which is the best option I think ! It is free and used by thousands of researchers !

Good luck with your scientific graphs !

www.r-graph-gallery.com

Originpro is wonderful

sigmaplot easy to learn, flexible and designed to produce high quality graphs for publication 

origin with no doubt!

Originpro is very good but it's not free. With the free version, you can;t export your graph without seeing 'demo' written all over your image/plot

I have been using xmgrace for years.

Visit http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace/

I really would recommend to use Graphpad Prism as metioned above. It´s easy to use, very versatile, you can use it as statistics tool and you can find it´s images in many many publications.

I have to admit, that I don´t know any other software, so I can´t help you with any comparison.

Hope that helps

The best *free* graphing software I know of is Veusz.  It has a workable user interface and can produce a wide range of high quality graphs and figures.  Otherwise, graphpad prism is great, although it does cost money.  Good luck!

DPlot is very good software.

You can use 'Easyplot' software, it's easy to use.

I also had same query. Thank you, fellas for your answers

Depending on your discipline, a separate program for plotting may not be needed as most statistical software can do good plots - eg STATA. R is a great option. It takes a bit of time to learn, but you will find it is worth it , especially in the long run. Good luck.

can anyone send me the origin software plz..?my email id id [email protected]

Siddhartha,

Origin: http://originlab.com/

I use/recommend http://www.ezlsoftware.com ezl

Plotly is an excellent  online platform for professional grphs. Where you dont have to learn coding or install the software.

Someone who can share Origin the last  vertion or earlier  to build Scientific graphs ,It would be wonderful if someone can share the link to donwload it.The Trial vertion is so limited .All the best.

Origin Lab

Whatever you have access to and can do the job. R is open access, but requires some time to learn. Choose as you will.

please , which is the last version of Origin Lab??

 Origin 2017.

Thanks ,Mohammad

can you sent   a link for Originpro 8.5??

but it stopping in between while downloading origin from Origion website: http://originlab.com/

Why not using gnuplot ? You should look at http://www.gnuplotting.org/

i think origin is best solution. also can use sigma plot. i started using origin as well as sigma plot.. origin is good for curve fitting...

For time-series data, I developed an open-source application for Excel call Formative Grapher. It is available at http://observechange.org/graph.

Article Formative graphing with a Microsoft Excel 2013 template.

Sigmaplot is good

Dear Sir,

We can plot all graphical representation with MATLAB by writing appropriate codes in older versions. But, from MATLAB 2013 versions onwards, we can plot such graphics by import data through excel sheets in MATLAB itself.

But however, there are few software tools which provide both statistical analysis as well as 2 D 3 D graphics with high resolutions.

Few links to such tools are mentioned below:

http://www.originlab.com/

http://www.gnuplot.info/

http://www.sigmaplot.co.uk/products/sigmaplot/sigmaplot-details.php

http://www.teraplot.com/

http://www.goldensoftware.com/products/grapher

http://www.graphpad.com/scientific-software/prism/

http://www.dplot.com/index.htm

All the best sir...!!!

The best graphical presentation made in using best software MATLAB.

I would recommend R (using R-Studio https://www.rstudio.com/) together with the ggplot2 package (http://ggplot2.org/). It produces beautiful plots for publication that are fully customizable. Will take you some time to learn if you are not familiar with R but totally worthwhile.

Have a look here: http://www.r-graph-gallery.com/

Best!

arnaud

gnuplot

http://www.gnuplot.info/

qtgrace

https://sourceforge.net/projects/qtgrace/

matplotlib for Python

https://matplotlib.org/

Same caveats as Aranud stated for ggplot2 on R

The Best answer Will be R which is a free software also.

Another option is Graph Pad but this is not free software, no doubt it provides better graph then any other software as it is specially made for plotting graph. So now it's on you what you will prefer.

I hope it helps.

Thanks

Hi,

Python as also some wonderful graphic possibilities. It is free, allows fully reproducible analysis, and is probably the most used programming language for data science. You can use it for your whole pipeline: from data wrangling to visualization.

Here is a graphic gallery that displays hundreds of example with the reproducible code. You should find the graph you need!

www.python-graph-gallery.com

https://www.python-graph-gallery.com

In my opinion, there are generally two types of approaches to prepare high quality graphics:

The first type is using tools/programs (Microsoft Office, Origin, Sigmaplot, etc.).

Among these tools, some are free whereas some are commercial. So you may have to purchase a license. The main advantage of these tools is that you can produce graphics quickly when data is ready.

The disadvantage is that you can NOT produce graphics in batch mode. Also you are also usually limited by the built-in features, so you cannot really create any creative/eye-catchy graphics.

The second type is programming based (MATLAB, Python, R, etc.).

An instinct advantage of using programming method is that you can create many graphics with only one run. However, you usually have to spend much more time to prepare the first nice graphic.

Also not all programming languages are free to use. MATLAB is not free, for example. Another advantage is that with programming, you can produce much complex graphics.

Graphic itself has many type, vector, raster, etc. So it is unlikely one single tool can solve all the problems.

I am not a Python person, but I recommend it in the long run.

It's free.

It has great community to get help.

It supports many types of graphics.

It runs cross platform.

Hope it helps.

In addition to all approaches mentioned above,

JavaFX Charts may be o good choice or good starting point if you develop a software with java eco-system.

Second alternative is using Project-Platypus/J3, is a github project serves better professional drawing. link: https://github.com/Project-Platypus/J3

Third: Using JZY3D again professional charts. http://www.jzy3d.org/

And finally you can use OCL plot and drawing chart function for visualizing data in a simple yet effective way. https://github.com/hakmesyo/open-cezeri-library

Regards.

Try Datagraph by visualdatatools. Only for mac, but the fastest and most convenient tool of all. Far better than R or Excel!

If anyone needs origin pro , Graph pad prism 6. Please email me at [email protected]

My current setup is Excel -> Golden Grapher and Python.

Excel is for data storage and initial exploratory plotting, just to get some ideas cross quickly. Then I find Golden Grapher very powerful and quick to use. At this category you may also use Origin Pro, although I find Grapher a better software for me personally. For huge datasets and final publication plots (and if you like to spend time tricking for the best plots), Python (Pandas and Matplotlib) integrated with Jupyter notebook is truly the best modern platform out there. This platform has made my MATLAB setup almost obsolete.

http://www.goldensoftware.com/products/grapher

https://geobio.space/blog/2016/12/21/jupyter-notebook-for-documenting-your-research/

One more choice is BioVinci, an intuitive, free, and easy-to-use web application that produces high quality scientific figures instantly. Just drag and drop your data.

It also comprises of various statistical functions like PCA, tSNE, ANOVA tests, Linear Regression and some state of the art machine learning methods like Random forest, K-mean clustering...

You could try the example of two-way ANOVA here: https://vinci.bioturing.com/panel/workset/build/Two-way-ANOVA

MATLAB/Scilab may do the simulations better, because I use to do simulations in these softwares. Even Maple and Mathematica can do simulaitons better. Data interpretations were done in R also.

https://matplotlib.org/

I have a good experience with Kaleidagraph and Origin Software.

Hope Someone gives comments?

Origine software

https://www.originlab.com/demodownload.aspx

The origin is best graphical software

it depend

origin is the best but matematica and ... meke good results

You can use sigmaplot, SPSS, Matlab or origin pro.

Tecplot used for meshing and coutour, as well as Origin, For Paraview, GNU license is valiable

Just truism: there is no single ``best'' graphics software and the choice strongly depends on given task at hand and preferences. To my knowledge one of the best software in terms of the figures quality is the GMT (open source) package. However, it is relatively difficult to use so I could recommend its use primerly for making complex plots for publications. Mathematica and Matlab graphics are also satisfactory. On the other hand gnuplot is easy to use but its quality is lower. Different story is producing real 3D figures/images (e.g. spacial 3D distribution of given physical parameter). Here I could recommend the Paraview or (more generally) VTK suit. Ray tracers (e.g. Povray) can also produce superb 3D graphics.

U can use QCustomplot, its open source code

Origin pro is the best choice

My opinion is Using of R Studio is now the best choice with best graphical quality and with multivariate analysis.

I have worked with OriginPro, MS Excel. OriginPro is better option for plotting and analyzing data by just simple click. . .It is very user-friendly and more powerful.

Using R is the best option as one can have panelled graphics in the same with just a one line command and its free for all! Ease of doing Multivariate analysis is another forte of R! RStudio or R Commander might be used as a GUI for easy handling of R.

I recommend Origin Pro and KaleidalGraph because they are very simple and user friendly tools to plot scientific data.

Softfare, in particular open source is constantly changing. Actually i would recoment Plot.ly platform. For those with programming skills - R - free and generated beautiful visualisations.

E-draw Max

Matlab.

An answer to a "what is best" is likely to be subjective, also due to constraints regarding operating system, personal skills, user-interface preferences or available money. Also the "best" program can well depend on the particular plot one wants to make.

My personal choices for plotting graphs (2D, 3D-surface) which produce high quality vector-graphics (EPS, PDF, SVG) are:

1) gnuplot

2) R (offers top integration with LaTeX using Sweave or knitr)

3) Octave (a free Matlab alternative)

All these have served me well over the years and been used in publications.

Which of the above to chose depends on the format of the data to plot, the amount of processing needed (filtering, analysis) and the particular plot to create (histogram, line, scatter, circular, density, surface plot, etc).

If money is no constraint, then the well known commercial tools also offer good plotting possibilities: Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, OriginLab

www.graphpad.com/scientific-software/prism/

Origin Pro ,MATLAB , MS EXCEL

SigmaPlot. Comes with a non-linear regression curve fitting utility... Integrates well with Word and PowerPoint.

Our lab used graphpad before, and making adjustment to graphs are so difficult. Some people in the lab asked me to learn coding, but I found it too difficult, especially the ggplot2 package. But a friend recommend me using BioVinci (https://biovinci.bioturing.com/) and now people in the lab (they know how to code) are all amazed with my plotting and statistical skills. BioVinci's graphs are simple with drag and drop interface. I highly recommend BioVinci

Hi

please see :

https://www.labome.com/method/Statistical-Analysis-Software-Programs-in-Biomedical-Research.html

I'm using SigmaPlot (v.13 currently) and am very often experiencing ''bug-problems'', crashing software, non-responding system, and glitches editing graphs. Based on these comments, you can easily get frustrated with the software. However, the plot quality is sufficient, there's help available, and it offers a lot of statistical analysis.

I have only briefly used GraphPad Prism, and had difficulties ''learning'' the different user-interface, however, it had many interesting options. Many software have a trial version available, so I'd recommend trying out 2 or 3 options before choosing a favourite.