Gnuplot — Plot Albert Einstein with Terminal

Mikhail Raevskiy
11 min readSep 10, 2020
Gnuplot — Plot Albert Einstein with Terminal
3D Albert Einstein in Gnuplot

Disclaimer: this story originally was published at habr.com and represents a short translation of Sergey Dolin's work

Surely many of you leafing through Western scientific publications have seen beautiful and simple graphics. Perhaps some of you have wondered what these pundits visualize their data. And now there is a gorgeous and very simple graphing tool, which is almost everywhere: Windows, linux, android, and others, I’m sure there is even under DOS. It is reliable, simple and allows you to present any text-tabular data in the form of beautiful graphs.

Why Gnuplot?

If you have already read some of my articles, you might have noticed beautiful graphs.

Gnuplot — graph from the post about the random number generator
Graph from the post about the random number generator
Gnuplot — Graph from the post about the speediest modems
Graph from the post about the speediest modems

The graphs are simple and cool. The most valuable advantage of Gnuplot is that to plot them you only need a text file with the raw data, Gnuplot on your favorite OS (OpenWRT though), and your favorite vim test editor.

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Mikhail Raevskiy

Bioinformatician at Oncobox Inc. (@oncobox). Research Associate