LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

ntxvega1975

I can't tell what license is applicable.

jtrueb

Obviously there is a lot of work here, but I am a bit confused. If you already have lab code in Julia, Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc., what is the motivation to use this tool? Is this hot in a specific community?

jabl

I suppose this is a FOSS solution for the roughly same space occupied by commercial tools like Origin, that are very popular in some scientific communities.

They can be useful if you have other tools (e.g. measurement software) that already produces the data you want, and you just want a GUI tool to create plots, and maybe do some simple things like least squares curve fitting etc.

If you already do a lot of data wrangling in something with a programming language and plotting libraries accessible from said language, like the ones you mention, yeah, this is not the tool for you.

cl3misch

HN hug of death?

givinguflac

Pretty sure this is the project github:

https://github.com/KDE/labplot

yonatan8070

I think that's just a GitHub mirror, the actual development is happening over at the KDE GitLab

https://invent.kde.org/education/labplot

RedShift1

Unfortunately the only database it supports is SQLite, I really wanted to hook this up directly to a database or REST API. Going back and forth between exporting files and importing them into LabPlot is just too much work...

mouz

The manual says otherwise:

https://docs.labplot.org/en/import_export/import_export_sql....

https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.15/sql-driver.html

Are you talking about something else?

kidloco

SQLite is great and there are a few 3rd party REST API solutions available. What's the problem?

esafak

Are you serious? "Why don't you copy your data into a new database just to visualize it?"