Best Open Source Software for Economics Graphing and Plotting
- Gnuplot. Gnuplot is one of the best-established graphing tools, popular among intermediate and advanced users.
- Matplotlib. Matplotlib is another popular option for economists looking for tools to aid in the visual display of their results.
- R.
- Gephi.
Drawing Scientific Graphs
- Give your graph a descriptive title.
- Ensure you have put your graph the right way around.
- Determine the variable range.
- Determine the scale factor of the graph.
- Label the horizontal and vertical axes with units clearly.
- Remove any outliers.
- Draw a line of best fit.
To create an error bar plot, select one of the error bar graph types. Your error bar computation choices are made from the graph wizard. SigmaPlot is powerful at summarizing your raw data, so you don't have to compute your means and std. deviations or errors—SigmaPlot will do that for you.
Exporting the graph data
- Right-click in the graph window and click Export.
- Click the Data tab.
- Click the Series drop-down arrow and choose a series to export.
- Choose a format type from the Format list.
- In the Delimiter list, choose one to use if you are exporting to text format.
- Click the Save button.
Here are the steps to quickly copy the chart format from the chart on the left and paste in the new chart:
- Right-click on the chart whose formatting you want to copy and select copy (or select it and use the keyboard shortcut Control + C).
- Go to Home –> Clipboard –> Paste –> Paste Special.
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- Activate the graph with labels.
- Go to Label tab, select Box or Shadow for the Frame drop-down list, and change the border color and fill color with the Border Color button and Fill Color button .
Copy specific content from a PDF
- Open the PDF document in Reader. Right-click the document, and choose Select Tool from the pop-up menu.
- Drag to select text, or click to select an image. Right-click the selected item, and choose Copy.
- The content is copied to the clipboard.
In Excel, select the embedded chart or chart sheet that you want to copy to a Word document. Select the Home tab then from the Clipboard group click the Copy button. In the Word document, click where you want to paste the copied chart. Select the Home tab then from the Clipboard group click Paste.
5 can convert OPJU files to the older OPJ format. If you have been given an OPJU file and cannot open it in your older version of Origin, (1) download and run this Viewer (no installation needed!), (2) drop your OPJU file onto the Viewer and (3) choose File: Save Project As and save as OPJ.
Save a chart as a picture
- Click the chart that you want to save as a picture.
- Choose Copy from the ribbon, or press CTRL+C on your keyboard .
- Switch to the application you want to copy the chart to.
- Place your cursor where you want the chart to appear, then select Paste from the ribbon, or press CTRL+V on your keyboard.
Sometimes you may want to add a company logo or some picture to annotate the graph. To do so, right click in graph window and choose Import Images from Files context menu to make an image show in graph window. The image and data modes have speed keys.
To open an OPJU file in Origin, select File → Open, select the ". opju" file type, navigate to the OPJU file location, and click Open. To save an OPJU file in Origin, select File → Save project or Save Project As, name the file, choose the save location, and click Save.
How do I use two axes effectively
- If necessary, create a 2nd plot.
- Right-click the 2nd plot, and choose the Add New Axis…
- Confirm the Plot you want to add the axis to and click Next.
- Select the axis you want to add (X Axis or Y Axis).
- Select the location of the new axis, then click Finish.
Change your axis scale in the Graph Properties dialog box Axis Tab, Scale panel, to Linear. Use the Tick Labels panel to change your labels from "Numeric" to the categories column data worksheet (see How do I use my own labels for tick labels). Now you can use the Axis Breaks panel and add and axis break to your graph.
Installation Instructions:
- Download the file to your machine.
- Double-click on the MSP file.
- The patch will install itself, replacing only files that have changed and leaving other files alone. You should not uninstall your previous version of SigmaPlot. You will not need your license file.
