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jmitchel@king.drexel.edu (Jim Mitchell) writes:

>I'd appreciate opinion on what the current favorite program is that does
>what Cricket Graph used to do.  We're particularly interested in curve
>fitting as well as general graphing of data.  It's my impression that 
>something better is available, but don't know what.  Obviously the less 
>expensive the better. 

   For scientific work we find that Igor and KaleidaGraph are very good.

   Igor stands for (Interactive Graphics Oriented Research tool) and
as you might guess, its strong suit is scientific analysis of data and 
it has what one user described as an expert-friendly interface.  This 
doesn't mean that it is not friendly, just that as you select items in 
the pull down menus, it builds up commands in a window.  And clicking on 
a button executes the command and adds it to a list of commands that you 
can re-use like a macro. (There is an Igor demo copy available from an 
anonymous FTP site.)

   KaleidaGraph is more Mac like in it's commanding.  Both of these 
programs will allow you to do some page layout kind of things.  For 
example, you can place several graphs or tables on the same page or place 
one graph or table inside another.  It makes a nice effect when you place 
a table of the data inside the graph. 

   One of our graphs found its way to the front page of the New York Times's
Science section.  If that isn't professional, then I don't know what is! 

                          Hope this helps.

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