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LabPlot

Application for interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data

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LabPlot is a free and open-source, cross-platform computer program for interactive scientific plotting, curve fitting, nonlinear regression, data processing and data analysis. LabPlot is available, under the GPL-2.0-or-later license, for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Haiku operating systems.

It has a graphical user interface, a command-line interface, and an interactive and animated notebook interface. It is similar to Origin and able to import Origin's data files. Features include the Hilbert transform function, statistics, color maps, conditional formatting, plot digitization and multi-axes.

01History

In 2008, developers of LabPlot and SciDAVis (another Origin clone, forked from QtiPlot) "found their project goals to be very similar" and decided to merge their code into a common backend while maintaining two frontends: LabPlot, integrated with the KDE desktop environment (DE); and SciDAVis, written in DE-independent Qt with fewer dependencies for easier cross-platform use.

Starting April 2024, LabPlot received funding from NLnet's NGI0 Core grant to add scripting capabilities (via Python and a public interface), more data analysis functions, and statistical analysis features.

LabPlot can draw sparklines at top of the data columns to show a quick glance of the data before plotting them.
LabPlot can draw sparklines at top of the data columns to show a quick glance of the data before plotting them.
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  • Breezeicons-apps-48-labplot.svg by Andreas Kainz <kainz.a@gmail.com>, Uri Herrera <uri_herrera@nitrux.in>, Andrew Lake <jamboarder@gmail.com>, Marco Martin <notmart@gmail.com>, Harald Sitter <sitter@kde.org>, Jonathan Riddell <jr@jriddell.org>, Ken Vermette <vermette@gmail.com>, Aleix Pol <aleixpol@kde.org>, David Faure <faure@kde.org>, Albert Vaca <albertvaka@gmail.com>, Luca Beltrame <lbeltrame@kde.org>, Gleb Popov <6yearold@gmail.com>, Nuno Pinheiro <nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com>, Alex Richardson <arichardson.kde@gmail.com>, Jan Grulich <jgrulich@redhat.com>, Bernhard Landauer <oberon@manjaro.org>, Heiko Becker <heirecka@exherbo.org>, Volker Krause <vkrause@kde.org>, David Rosca <nowrep@gmail.com>, Phil Schaf <flying-sheep@web.de>, Public domain
  • 2025-11-21 20 45 26-001-progetti 2025-11-05-diodo soppressore test lab g.png by LoSmilzo-Usenet, CC0

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