GnuPlot vs MATLAB
A side-by-side look at GnuPlot and MATLAB. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
GnuPlot
Science & Engineering
GnuPlot is a free, open-source graphing utility that can produce publication-quality 2D and 3D plots. It supports various plot types like line, scatter, histogram, boxplot, and contour plots. GnuPlot can also fit and manipulate data.
plottinggraphsdata-visualization2d-plots3d-plots
MATLAB
Development
MATLAB is a proprietary programming language and interactive environment for numerical computation, visualization, and programming. It allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages.
matrix-manipulationnumerical-computingvisualizationalgorithms
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