Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-08 Thread Giacomo Boffi
Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid writes: If it's 2D data, you don't need to use a 3D graph. if it's tabular data, you don't need an uber-histogram -- giampippetto, coso, come si chiama? ah si` MMAX ha scritto: Tra il trascendente e l'interpretazione prevalente del dato come assioma ne

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-07 Thread David Bolen
AlienBaby matt.j.war...@gmail.com writes: I'd be grateful for any suggestions / pointers to something useful, Ignoring the commercial vs. open source discussion, although it was a few years ago, I found Chart Director (http://www.advsofteng.com/) to work very well, with plenty of platform and

Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread AlienBaby
Hi, I'm on the hunt for a good quality commercially licensed graphing / plotting library and wondered if anyone here had any recomendations. The work to be done is less scientific, more presentational, (I'm not going to be dealing with heatmaps / vectors etc.., just the usual bar / line / bubble

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Pablo Recio Quijano
Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. 2010/4/6 AlienBaby matt.j.war...@gmail.com Hi, I'm on the hunt for a good quality commercially licensed graphing / plotting library and wondered if anyone here had any recomendations. The work to be done is

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Jean-Michel Pichavant
Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. Gnuplot is ugly. I'm using it because I don't care if it's ugly but it clearly lacks of look feel for presentations, as requested by the OP. You have

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread AlienBaby
On Apr 6, 4:24 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. Gnuplot is ugly. I'm using it because I don't care if it's ugly but it clearly lacks of look feel for

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. Gnuplot is ugly. I'm using it because I don't care if it's ugly but it clearly lacks of look feel for

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Ed Keith
--- On Tue, 4/6/10, AlienBaby matt.j.war...@gmail.com wrote: From: AlienBaby matt.j.war...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library To: python-list@python.org Date: Tuesday, April 6, 2010, 12:05 PM On Apr 6, 4:24 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Paul McGuire
On Apr 6, 11:05 am, AlienBaby matt.j.war...@gmail.com wrote: The requirement for a commercial license comes down to being restricted to not using any open source code. If it's an open source license it can't be used in our context. You may be misunderstanding this issue, I think you are

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-06, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. Gnuplot is ugly. I'm using it because I don't care if

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 9:05 AM, AlienBaby matt.j.war...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 6, 4:24 pm, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. Gnuplot is ugly. I'm using it because

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Michael Torrie
On 04/06/2010 10:05 AM, AlienBaby wrote: The requirement for a commercial license comes down to being restricted to not using any open source code. If it's an open source license it can't be used in our context. Python itself and all its standard libraries are open source, under the PSF

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread superpollo
Grant Edwards ha scritto: On 2010-04-06, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. Gnuplot is ugly. I'm using it

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Duncan Booth
Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: Seriously, most of the graphs I've seen in presentations would make Ed Tufte spin in his grave. http://flowingdata.com/2010/03/20/powerpoint-and-dying-kittens/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread AlienBaby
I am just looking at the PSF license now as it goes. It does appear that we should be able to continue using matplotlib. - the restrictions on open-source that have been imposed specifically state it is fine to use the python language, and if matplotlib has the same license I personally can't see

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-04-06 11:44 AM, superpollo wrote: Grant Edwards ha scritto: On 2010-04-06, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-06, superpollo ute...@esempio.net wrote: Grant Edwards ha scritto: On 2010-04-06, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-06, Duncan Booth duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid wrote: Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: Seriously, most of the graphs I've seen in presentations would make Ed Tufte spin in his grave. http://flowingdata.com/2010/03/20/powerpoint-and-dying-kittens/ :) Years ago I was

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Lie Ryan
On 04/07/10 02:22, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-04-06, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and free alternatives? Like GNU Plot. Gnuplot is

Re: Recommend Commercial graphing library

2010-04-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-04-07, Lie Ryan lie.1...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/07/10 02:22, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-04-06, Grant Edwards inva...@invalid.invalid wrote: On 2010-04-06, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote: Pablo Recio Quijano wrote: Why must be commercial, when there is open and