{"id":390,"date":"2014-06-02T13:38:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T10:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/?p=390"},"modified":"2014-06-16T15:52:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T12:52:33","slug":"mat113-lesson-07-gnuplot-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/mat113-lesson-07-gnuplot-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"MAT113 Lesson 07: Gnuplot Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spreadsheet is a powerful general purpose software tool, but it works primarily with discrete values, not the more common continuous variables of mathematics, engineering &amp; science<\/p>\n<p>Products do exist which understand continuous variable and the type of work mathematicians, engineers and scientists need to do. For example:<\/p>\n<p>Gnuplot \u2013 a plotting and curve fitting tool (<a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/gnuplot\/files\/gnuplot\/4.6.0\/gp460-win32-setup.exe\/download\" target=\"_blank\">Windows version<\/a>)<br \/>\nMaxima \u2013 computer algebra<\/p>\n<p>We start with Gnuplot as a step beyond charts. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/vrd9kdeicjtzi4k\/MAT113%20Lesson%2007%20GnuPlot%20Intro.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lecture slides here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Gnuplot:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Project page to download software: <a title=\"Gnuplot project page\" href=\"http:\/\/gnuplot.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gnuplot.info\/<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Demos: <a href=\"http:\/\/gnuplot.sourceforge.net\/demo\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gnuplot.sourceforge.net\/demo\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Run gnuplot online\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gnuplot.respawned.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gnuplot.respawned.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/plotshare.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/plotshare.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Simple tutorials\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gnuplot.info\/help.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/gnuplot.info\/help.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/people.duke.edu\/~hpgavin\/gnuplot.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/people.duke.edu\/~hpgavin\/gnuplot.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.ucsc.edu\/~medling\/programming\/gnuplot_tutorial_1\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/physics.ucsc.edu\/~medling\/programming\/gnuplot_tutorial_1\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spreadsheet is a powerful general purpose software tool, but it works primarily with discrete values, not the more common continuous variables of mathematics, engineering &amp; science Products do exist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}