Software provides "really effective" data plots

It is not uncommon for significant time and investment to be put into generating experimental data, only for the results to be let down in the analysis and presentation.

It is not uncommon for significant time and investment to be put into generating experimental data, only for the results to be let down in the analysis and presentation.

What does an engineer or scientist use to get really effective data plots? Excel is always an option, but its plotting capabilities are limited to business charts and line plots - and while 65,536 rows of data are usually enough for business and financial applications, this can often be restricting when dealing with large technical data sets.

The next step up is a general-purpose graphing package, but even these don't really have the ability to really get past curve-fitting and x-y plots.

To really do the data justice requires state-of-the-art graphing capabilities, and that means Tecplot.

Ideal for the engineering department where analysing and plotting data from different sources is common, Tecplot runs on a range of computing platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) so users can share data across these platforms.

Tecplot is supplied and supported in the UKand Ireland by Adept Scientific.

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