List of information graphics software

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This is a list of software to create any kind of information graphics:

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SoftwareExample(s)Interface License(s) Initial release yearLatest release Operating system Distinguishing features
License Open source (yes/no)
Kst GUI, CLIGPLYes20042021, v 2.0.x Linux, macOS, Windows Fast real-time large-dataset plotting and viewing tool with basic data analysis functions
AIDA LGPL Yes2001October 2003 / 3.2.1Open interfaces and formats for particle physics data processing
Algebrator GUI Proprietary No19992009 / 4.2 Linux, macOS, Sugar, Windows2D graphs
Archimdrawing 2D and 3D graphs freeware No20072008WindowsGraphs in polar (or other) coordinates become specific cases of parametric graphs
Baudline Baudline spectro1.png GUIProprietaryNo2000July 21, 2010 / 1.08 FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris Signal analysis tool
D3js JavaScript library BSD Yes2011August 25, 2018 / 5.7.0web browsers, js enginesstatic and dynamic presentations
DADiSP Dadisp01.png GUI, command line, SPL script languageProprietaryNo1987January 17, 2017 / 6.7 B02WindowsNumerical analysis and signal processing with a spreadsheet-like interface
DAP GNU-style copyleft [1] Yes1998April 16, 2014 / 3.10Statistics
Datacopia Datacopia Chart Examples.png GUI (web based) Freemium No2012Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android Generates ranked list of several plots & visualizations based on analysis of data provided, lets user choose favorite graphic, share, and export as image
DataGraph GUI, command lineProprietaryNo2006February 17, 2020 / 4.5.1macOS2D graphing, animations, data analysis, linear and non-linear curve fitting
DataScene GUI Shareware No2009March 2011 / 3.0.7Linux, Unix/X11, Windows2D & 3D graphing, animated graphs, data analysis, curve fitting, and data monitoring
ECharts GUI (web based), TypeScript Charting LibraryApache 2.0Yes2013July 18, 2023 / 5.4.3Any (Web-based application)Typescript based interactive graphic library
EditGrid GUI (web based)No2006Any (Web-based application)Online spreadsheet; service to end May 1, 2014
EJS HomePageEjsSplash.png GUIGPLYes2014Linux, macOS, WindowsCreates ODE solving interactive, ready-to-publish Java applets
Epi Info GPLYes1985February 2, 2018 / 7.2.2.6WindowsStatistics
EViews ProprietaryNo1994June 21, 2017 / 10Statistics
Fityk Fityk screenshot.png GUI, command lineGPLYes2004December 19, 2016 / 1.3.1Linux, macOS, Windowsspecialized in curve fitting
FlexPro ProprietaryNo19912017MS Windows only
FreeMat FreeMat.gif GPL [2] Yes2004June 30, 2013 / 4.2Linux, macOS, Windows
FusionCharts JavaScript Charting Library.jpg GUI (web based), JavaScript Charting Library Proprietary No2002November 1, 2016 / 3.11.3All Web Browsers (including IE 6), JS EnginesInteractive JavaScript Charts
GeoGebra Geogebra software.png GUIGPL with non-commercial restriction [3] Yes2001September 3, 2017 / 6.0.385.0Linux, macOS, Sugar, Windows, AndroidVery good for rendering geometry, graphs, statistical diagrams, (LaTeX) formula rendering; all antialiased in PNG Export; exports to SVG, EPS, EMF, PNG, PDF
Gephi Gephi 0.9.1 Network Analysis and Visualization Software.png GUIGPLv3 / CDDL 1.0Yes2008February 14, 2016 / 0.9.1Linux, macOS, WindowsNetworks and complex systems, dynamic and hierarchical graphs
ggplot2 R GPL2Yes2007December 30, 2016 / 2.2.1Cross-platformBased on The Grammar of Graphics
Grafana
Grafana Dashboard.jpg
GUI (web based) GNU Affero General Public License v3.0Yes2014August 1 2022 / 9.0.6All Web BrowsersDiagrams, Live Data Analysis, Public Dashboards
Gnumeric GUIGPL [4] Yes2001August 19, 2018 / 1.12.43 Cross-platform Spreadsheet
GNU Octave Octave session.png GUI, command line, C, C++, FortranGPLYes1993April 13, 2023 / 8.2.0 FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS), Solaris, Windows, Android MATLAB compatible, built-in ODE and DAE solvers, extensive user contributed toolboxes
Gnuplot Foucault-anim.gif Command line, Python, Ruby, Smalltalk, third-party GUIsOwn licenseYes1986June 1, 2023 / 5.4.8Amiga, Atari ST, BeOS, Linux, Mac, DOS, OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS), OS-9/68k, Ultrix, Windows, VMS, AndroidBuilt in scripting language
GrADS command lineGPLYes1988April 25, 2018 / 2.2.1Linux, macOS, Windows, Solaris, IBM AIX, DEC Alpha, IRIXVisualization of Earth science data
GraphPad Prism GUIproprietaryNo1989October 12, 2016 / 7.0bMac, Windows
Grace Grace-screenshot.png Command line, GUI, various APIsGPLYes1998February 14, 2015 / 5.1.25Linux, Mac(X11), Windows (cygwin)Uses Motif; fork of Xmgr
Graphviz DOT language CPL Yes1991December 25, 2016 / 2.40.1Linux, macOS, Windows
gretl GUI GPL Yes2000September 3, 2018 / 2018cLinux, Mac, WindowsSpecialized in econometrics and time series analyses, built-in scripting language, interface to gnuplot and R
HippoDraw GPL v2Yes1992October 2007 / 1.21.3C++-based data analysis system
IGOR Pro IGOR Pro sample plot.png GUIproprietaryNo1989April 11, 2019 / 8.0.3Mac, Windows3D and volume visualization, Curve and peak fitting, Signal processing, Image processing
ILNumerics Math library for .NET, C# GPL / proprietaryNo2006June 11, 2015 / v4.8Windows and LinuxMath library with rich visualization features (interactive 3D scenes, scientific plotting) and MATLAB-like syntax
Ipe IpeClipping.png GUI, XML GPLYes1993December 10, 2016 / 7.2.7Linux, macOS, WindowsIPE Graphics with LaTeX equations or notations can be stored as PDF files (not only exported to PDF) and be included in LaTeX documents; pdftoipe allows any PDF graph to be edited in Ipe
JFreeChart JFree-screenshot.png GUI, Java, Groovy LGPLYes2000November 5, 2017 / 1.5.0Any (Java)
JMP JMP Graph Sample.png GUI, scriptingproprietaryNo1989March 9, 2021 / 16.0Mac, WindowsInteractive statistical graphics
Calligra Sheets KChart-screenshot.png GUIGPLYes2010March 21, 2017 / 3.0.1Linux (KDE)The charting tool of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite developed by KDE
Kig GUIGPLYes2006Geometry diagrams only
LabPlot LabPlot 2.9.0 Screenshot.png GUI, Qt, C, C++ GNU GPLv2 or laterYes2001July 16, 2024 / 2.11.1 Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Haiku 2D plotting, suitable for creation of publication-ready plots
LabVIEW ProprietaryNo1986May 2017 / 2017Visual circuits modeling
LibreOffice
Libreoffice-calc.png
GUI MPL-2.0 Yes2011September 8, 2022 / 7.3.6Linux, macOS, WindowsSpreadsheet, Diagrams, Statistical Functions
LiSiCA LiSiCA 2d output.png Python No2015Windows, LinuxLigand-based virtual screening software that searches for 2D and 3D similarities between a reference compound and a database of target compounds
MagicPlot GUIProprietaryNo2008January 18, 2021 / 3.0Any (Java)Nonlinear fitting, batch processing
Maple MaplePlot.jpeg GUI, command lineProprietaryNo1982May 25, 2017 / 2017Linux, macOS, Windows
MathCad GUIProprietaryNo1986March 6, 2017 / Prime 4.0, November 2015 / 15.0 M045WindowsSimple GUI driven interface
Mathematica Mathematica Image.png GUI, command line, C++ProprietaryNo198814.2.0 (January 23, 2025;2 months ago (2025-01-23)) [±] [5] Linux, macOS, Windows, Raspberry Pi [6] Computer algebra, statistics and numerical analysis system with general graphic language; see Wolfram Language
MATLAB MATLAB mesh sinc3D.svg GUIProprietaryNo1979September 20, 2017 / R2017bLinux, macOS, WindowsMatrix system
Maxima GUI, command lineGPLYes1982October 3, 2017 / 5.41.0BSD, Linux, macOS, Unix, Windows, AndroidVarious graphical user interfaces, Support LaTeX with GNU TeXmacs and Web frontend with SageMath
MayaVi Mayavi.png GUI, Python, scriptable, embeddableBSDYes2019August 3, 2018 / 4.6.2Linux, macOS, WindowsVisualises computational grids, scalar/vector/tensor data; texture & ray-cast mappers
MedCalc GUIProprietaryNo1993August 17, 2017 / 17.9WindowsStatistics
Microsoft Excel GUI Proprietary No1987macOS, Windows Spreadsheet
NCSS GUIProprietaryNo1981May 2, 2016 / NCSS 11WindowsStatistical analysis and graphics software
Nucalc GUIproprietaryNo1994 Mac OS, macOS, Windows
Numbers (iWork) GUI Proprietary No2007March 28, 2017 / 4.1macOSSpreadsheet
OpenDX GUIProprietaryNo1991January 19, 2006 / 4.4.0Cross-platform
OpenOffice.org Calc GUI GNU LGPL Yes2002January 25, 2011 / 3.3 Cross-platform Spreadsheet
OpenPlaG OpenPlaG1.png GUIGPLYes2007June 12, 2018 / 3.5Any (PHP 5)graph plotter to use on websites
Orange Paint Data - example workflow.png GUI, Python scriptingGPLYes1996September 3, 2017 / 3.5Linux, Windows, macOSA visual programming data-flow software suite with widgets for statistical data analysis, interactive data visualization, data mining, and machine learning
Origin GUI, COM, C/C++ and scriptingproprietaryNo1992June 22, 2017 / 2017 SR2WindowsMulti-layer 2D, 3D, and statistical graphs for science and engineering; built-in digitizing tool; auto-recalculation and reporting; programmable, with access to NAG Numerical Library
ParaView GUI, Python scriptingGPLYes2002June 19, 2018 / 5.5.2Linux/Unix, macOS, WindowsParallel scientific and computational fluid dynamics visualizations
Perl Data Language (PDL) Pdl-plot.png Artistic License / GPLYes1996May 6, 2018 / 2.019Perl Data Language
PGPLOT FORTRAN, CNo1983February 26, 2001 / 5.2.2Linux, Mac, Windows(Fortran) California Institute of Technology, Inactive as of 2001
ploticus Ploticus wikipedia stats.png Command line, CGPLYes1999May 2013 / 2.42Linux, Mac, Windowsplots and charts from data
Plotly Plotly screenshot.png GUI, command line Python CommercialNo2012Any (web-based)plots and charts in browser, web-sharing and exporting, drag-and-drop data import, Python command line
plotutils command line, C/C++GPLYes1989September 27, 2009 / 2.6Linux, Mac, WindowsCollection of command line programs, C/C++ API
PLplot Plplot.png Ada, C/C++/D, Fortran 77/90, C, C++, Java, Lisp, Lua, OCaml, Octave, Perl, Python, Tcl/TkLGPLYes2001August 26, 2017 / 5.13.0Linux, Mac, WindowsMany different output formats: CGM, GIF, Jpeg, Png, Latex, PBM, PDF, Postscript, SVG, XFig, Qt, wxWidgets
PSPP GUI, command line GPL Yes1997August 20, 2017 / 1.0.0Linux, Mac, WindowsStatistical analysis of sampled data; free replacement for SPSS
QtiPlot GUI, PythonproprietaryNo2004May 31, 2017 / 0.9.9.11Linux, Mac, WindowsPython scriptable
R Plots from lm example.svg Third party GPL Yes1993July 2, 2018 / 3.5.1("Feather Spray")Linux, Mac, WindowsIn addition to base graphics, has a large number of graphics packages including lattice and ggplot2 . [7] Interoperabile with other free software packages
ROOT 2D ROI.jpg GUI, C++, Python, RubyLGPLYes1994August 23, 2018 / 6.14.04Linux, Mac, WindowsDe facto standard in high energy physics
RRDtool Rrddemo.png Command lineGPLYes1999May 17, 2017 / 1.7.0Linux, Windows
S-PLUS ProprietaryNo1988November 2010 / 8.2Statistics
S  ?1976Statistics
SAS ProprietaryNo1972July 10, 2013 / 9.4Statistics
Scilab Scilab en.png CeCILLYes1990February 14, 2019 / 6.0.2Linux, macOS, WindowsMatrix system
SciPy, NumPy, matplotlib modules for Python Logarithmic Spiral Pylab.svg Python, GUI, command lineBSD/matplotlibYes2003June 21, 2017 / 0.19.1, July 6, 2017 / 1.13.1, May 10, 2017 / 2.0.2FreeBSD, Linux, macOS, WindowsExtensive numerical and scientific library with MATLAB-style plotting
SOCR Yes2002Online tool suite for statistical computing
Sonic Visualiser GUI GPL Yes2010August 14, 2018 / 3.1.1 Linux, macOS, Windows
SPSS GUI, command lineProprietaryNo1968August 8, 2017 / 25.0Statistics
Stata ProprietaryNo1985June 6, 2017 / 15.0Statistics
Statgraphics Response plot.png GUIProprietaryNo1980July 2015 / 17.1.08WindowsStatistical package for exploratory data analysis, dynamic data visualization, statistical modeling, design of experiments, time series forecasting, quality improvement, Six Sigma
Statistical Lab Yes2005May 2, 2011 / 3.81
Systat ProprietaryNo1979Statistics
SymPy Sympy plot screenshot.png BSDYes2007September 14, 2018 / 1.3Linux, macOS, WindowsPython library for computer algebra and symbolic mathematics
Sysquake GUI, command lineProprietaryNo2001November 5, 2013 / 5.0Linux, macOS, WindowsMATLAB compatible, interactive graphics
SciDAVis Scidavis 0.1.0 screenshot.png GUI, PythonGPLYes2007June 4, 2018 / 1.23Linux, Mac, WindowsQt4-based GUI, Python scriptable
SigmaPlot GUIproprietaryNo19832014 / 13.0.0Windows
TAChart Simthyr 3.1 on openSUSE 11.png Charting librarymodified LGPLYes2012November 13, 2016 / 1.6.2Linux, macOS, WindowsVery flexible charting component for Lazarus / Free Pascal
Tableau GUIProprietaryNo2003WindowsSpreadsheet
Tecplot Tecplot 3d vortices.jpg GUIproprietaryNo19882016 / 2016Linux, Mac, Unix, Windows Computational fluid dynamics
Teechart TeeChart Gallery.png Charting libraryOpen sourceYes1995April 26, 2021Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, AndroidFull set of chart types, maps & gauges, interactive, real-time, PNG, JPEG export, cross-browser support, integration with WordPress, Drupal, Node.js, Joomla, TypeScript, NuGet among others
think-cell chartGUIproprietaryNo2002WindowsSupport for waterfall, Marimekko and Gantt charts; direct integration into Microsoft PowerPoint
Veusz Veusz screenshot 1.3.png GUI, Python, command lineGPLYes2007October 7, 2021 / 3.4Mac, Unix, WindowsCreate publication-quality PS/PDF plots, Python scripting and plugin interface
Visifire Independent of server side scriptingProprietaryNo2008June 5, 2014 / 5.1.7-0Mac, Windows
VisIt Rayleigh-Taylor instability.jpg GUI, C++, Python, and JavaBSDYes2002May 2018 / 2.13.2Linux, Mac, WindowsDesigned to handle very large data sets
Webix JavaScript library GPLV3/Proprietary [8] Yes2013June 27, 2017 / 4.4Cross platforms, cross browsersJavaScript/HTML5 based; more than 75 widgets and controls; maps; charts; data tables; organograms; gauge charts
Winplot GUIFreewareNo1985Microsoft Windows
World Programming System (WPS Analytics)GUI, command lineProprietaryNo2002March 2020 / v4.2AIX, Linux, Linux for Arm8 64-bit (AArch64), macOS, PowerLinux, POWER/System p/pSeries (LE), Windows, Linux for System z, z/OSStatistics; handles very large data sets; supports mixing Python, R, SAS, and SQL languages in one user program
Xgraph GUI, command lineProprietaryNo1985July 2018 / v4.38Linux, Windows, Mac, FreeBSD, SolarisInteractive and batch 2D data file plotting
Zoho Office Suite GUI (web based) Proprietary No2005Any (web-based application)Online spreadsheet

Vector graphics

Vector graphics software can be used for manual graphing or for editing the output of another program; see:

A few online editors using vector graphics for specific needs have been created.[ citation needed ] This kind of creative interfaces work well together with data visualization tools like the ones above.[ citation needed ]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The Dap Project for Statistics and Graphics" . Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  2. ↑ "Homepage". FreeMat website. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  3. ↑ The International GeoGebra Institute (April 2013). "GeoGebra Non-Commercial License Agreement". GeoGebra website. Archived from the original on 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Welcome to Gnumeric!". Archived from the original on 16 December 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI" . Retrieved 2025-01-23.
  6. ↑ Raspberry Pi now includes Mathematica and Wolfram Language for free | The Verge
  7. ↑ Lewin-Koh, Nicholas (7 January 2015). "CRAN Task View: Graphic Displays & Dynamic Graphics & Graphic Devices & Visualization".
  8. ↑ Webix - Buy
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