Dedicated graphing package overcomes the limitations of a common spreadsheet program and has the capacity to deal with large technical data sets
It's 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 you're 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 XY plots.
To really do the data justice requires state-of-the-art graphing capabilities, and that means Tecplot.
Tecplot runs on a range of computing platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X) so you can share data across these platforms.
Tecplot is supplied and supported in the UK and Ireland by Adept Scientific.
