Gnuplot/C2/Overview-of-Gnuplot/English
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Title Slide |
Welcome to the tutorial on Overview of gnuplot. |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn about,
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System and Software Requirement |
To record this tutorial, I am using
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial,
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Gnuplot |
Gnuplot is,
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Download link http://www.gnuplot.info |
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Open web browser. | Open the web browser of your choice. |
Go to gnuplot.info | Go to the web address, gnuplot.info.
This is the official site of gnuplot. |
Hover mouse on left and right to show the plots. | The plots on the homepage represent few of gnuplot’s capabilities.
Gnuplot has a large database of resources and example tutorials. |
Click on Books link.
Scroll down. |
Click on the Books link and scroll down the new page.
The popularity of gnuplot can be gauged from the several books available. |
Go back to gnuplot home page. | Go back to the home page. |
Click on the External Links section. | Click on the External Links section. |
Hover mouse over programming interfaces list | The page loads.
Notice the many programming interfaces available for gnuplot. |
Hover mouse over Octave link. | Many popular scientific programs also incorporate gnuplot in them. |
Go to http://www.gnuplot.info . | Let’s go back to gnuplot home page. |
Scroll down. Click on the Gallery of demos link. | Let’s scroll down.
Click on the Gallery of demos link. |
Hover the cursor on the demo page. | This page has several types of example scripts.
Every link has scripts which generate graphs in various styles. |
Cursor on 2D, 3D and axis transformation. | Notice the 2D and 3D plotting along with axis transformation ability. |
Cursor on curve fitting, annotation and applications. | Examples for curve fitting, annotation and applications are also available. |
Cursor on the web page. | Users may also use these links for learning purpose.
Learner may use this page for choosing styles and learn the various options. |
Go to gnuplot web page. | Go back to the gnuplot home page. |
Click on the Documentation link.
Hover cursor next to Documentation. |
Click on the Documentation link.
Notice that, detailed documentation is also available. Documentation is available in several languages. |
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User Forum |
Currently, Stackoverflow and Sourceforge have an active gnuplot user forum. |
Go to, https://sourceforge.net/p/gnuplot/discussion/ | Go to the Sourceforge web page on gnuplot. |
Cursor on Help and Discussion link on left frame. | Notice the two sections on Help and Discussions. |
Cursor on the Join link. | Learner must create a free account and sign in to ask questions. |
Go to https://stackoverflow.com/ | Now, let’s visit the stackoverflow website as seen here. |
Type gnuplot in the search form and press Enter. | Type gnuplot in the search form on the top and press Enter. |
Cursor on the refreshed page. | Notice the questions users have asked in the forum. |
Cursor on signup and login. | Here too, learner must sign up and log in to ask questions in the forum.
They are seen on the top right side of the page. |
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Benefits of gnuplot |
There are several benefits of using gnuplot. It is,
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Scientific community and gnuplot
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Gnuplot can
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Gist of the tutorials in this series |
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# Show Title slide of Introduction to gnuplot
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In these two tutorials, we will install gnuplot in Linux and Windows OS. |
# Show test window in Linux
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We will also test the terminal capability of the installed software. |
# Show title slide of Example files and demo folder
Debian Linux 9.3 |
The next tutorial explains about, example scripts available in gnuplot website and
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# Show title slide of Plotting functions
Debian Linux 9.3 |
The next tutorial explains about,
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# Show title slide of Set term and Variations.
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This tutorial explains about, the set term command.
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Play few seconds of the clip from the tutorial. | This tutorial explains about,
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Ubuntu Linux OS version 16.04 # Show Title slide of Generate 3D plots and Surfaces
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In these two tutorials we will write scripts to generate plots.
We will generate 3D plots and learn to script graphs in multiplot mode. |
Show Title slide of Error bars and Data fitting.
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The next tutorial in the series is Error bars and Data fitting.
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Show title slide from web site.
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The Latex and gnuplot tutorial, explains about, generating tex files with gnuplot.
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# Show title slide of Statistics and boxplot
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The next two tutorials explains about plotting large data sets.
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Show spoken website on gnuplot tutorials. | Later on, we may add more tutorials in this series.
These tutorials will be available on this website. |
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Summary |
To summarize, in this tutorial, we
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Spoken Tutorial Project |
This video summarises the Spoken Tutorial Project.
Please download and watch it. |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
Spoken tutorial team conducts workshops and give certificates.
For more details, please write to us. |
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Forum questions |
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Forum for specific questions: |
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Acknowledgement |
The Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by MHRD, Government of India. |
This is Rani from IIT, Bombay.
Thank you for joining. |