Plotmeister
Plotmeister is the swiss army knife for data exploration.
Plotmeister provides tools to transform your ASCII data into a Plotmeister compliant data format (the back-end). The data format is basically a table in which each column is labeled according to the user’s definition.
This is an example data table.
| x | y | z | algorithm |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 5.0 | alg1 |
| 1 | 3 | 6.0 | alg2 |
| 3 | 4 | 2.5 | alg1 |
The GUI frontend enables the user to explore a data set interactively. The user can specify which columns should be selected and plotted. The plot is generated on the fly. In the example above, the user may define that all values in columns x and z should be plotted which were recorded for algorithm ‘alg1’. So, Plotmeister would then plot the equivalent to the following table
| x | z |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5.0 |
| 3 | 2.5 |
Your feedback wanted
Since Plotmeister is not targeted for people’s daily use on the desktop, we would appreciate if you sent us comments about Plotmeister. (I’d expect that you might not be very certain what Plotmeister is good for.) Tell us what you think and send emails to hunoldinho_at_users.sourceforge.net.
What do I need Plotmeister for?
Scenario 1: developer
You produce a lot of ASCII data that contains valueable information that you would like to plot. In most cases, you would have to write a parser using Perl, Python, Bash, or any other language. This can be pretty time consuming and in my case, I also get bored and I am not motiviated enough to write parsers for each case. Plotmeister will support you by plotting the information you require in no time.
Overview of Plotmeister's stack of tools
