What is Plotline?
Plotline is a free, open-source data visualization and charting software. It provides an intuitive drag-and-drop interface that allows users to easily create a variety of 2D and 3D charts and graphs to visualize data, without needing to know any programming or charting syntax.
Some of the key features and capabilities of Plotline include:
- Intuitive drag-and-drop interface to quickly build charts and graphs
- Supports various 2D chart types like bar charts, pie charts, line/area graphs, scatter plots, heat maps and more
- Includes 3D chart types such as surface charts, wireframe graphs and contour plots
- Easy customization of chart layout, colors, labels, axes etc
- Chart templating for reusing chart configurations
- Import/export data from/to CSV, JSON and Excel formats
- Export charts in PNG, JPEG, PDF and other image formats
- Embed or share charts via URLs
- Connect to data sources like SQL databases, REST APIs etc
- Open source software released under GNU GPLv3 license
- Cross platform - works on Windows, Mac and Linux
With its user-friendly interface and wide array of features, Plotline is an excellent free alternative to paid charting and data visualization platforms for personal as well as business usage.
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