One thing I look for in a numerical package is the ability to make nice plots (typically PDF) of what I’m working on. I know I could almost always work on my data, export it, and make a great graph… but in keeping with the 80/20 rule I want to be able to do most [...]
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Nice Octave Plots
Posted in computing, mac tips & tricks, matlab, open source software, teaching, tagged gnu octave, octave, PDF, plot on December 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Octave on Mac
Posted in college, computing, links, matlab, open source software, physics, teaching on October 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been interested in GNU Octave for a while, although never bothered to play much since I had access to recent Matlab releases while I was at Duke. Now that I am managing my own software budget, and trying to keep it to $0, I have a new found appreciation for Open Source Software. [...]
