Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

labplot.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 44 posts

Re: LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

#5

Post by yonatan8070 »

givinguflac wrote: post #3

Pretty sure this is the project github: https://github.com/KDE/labplot

I think that's just a GitHub mirror, the actual development is happening over at the KDE GitLab

https://invent.kde.org/education/labplot

Re: LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

#6

Post by kidloco »

RedShift1 wrote: post #4

Unfortunately the only database it supports is SQLite, I really wanted to hook this up directly to a database or REST API. Going back and forth between exporting files and importing them into LabPlot is just too much work...

SQLite is great and there are a few 3rd party REST API solutions available. What's the problem?

Re: LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

#8

Post by esafak »

kidloco wrote: post #6
RedShift1 wrote: post #4

Unfortunately the only database it supports is SQLite, I really wanted to hook this up directly to a database or REST API. Going back and forth between exporting files and importing them into LabPlot is just too much work...

SQLite is great and there are a few 3rd party REST API solutions available. What's the problem?

Are you serious? "Why don't you copy your data into a new database just to visualize it?"

Re: LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

#9

Post by jabl »

jtrueb wrote: post #7

Obviously there is a lot of work here, but I am a bit confused. If you already have lab code in Julia, Matlab, R, Python, Excel, etc., what is the motivation to use this tool? Is this hot in a specific community?

I suppose this is a FOSS solution for the roughly same space occupied by commercial tools like Origin, that are very popular in some scientific communities.

They can be useful if you have other tools (e.g. measurement software) that already produces the data you want, and you just want a GUI tool to create plots, and maybe do some simple things like least squares curve fitting etc.

If you already do a lot of data wrangling in something with a programming language and plotting libraries accessible from said language, like the ones you mention, yeah, this is not the tool for you.

Re: LabPlot: Free, open source and cross-platform Data Visualization and Analysis

#10

Post by mouz »

RedShift1 wrote: post #4

Unfortunately the only database it supports is SQLite, I really wanted to hook this up directly to a database or REST API. Going back and forth between exporting files and importing them into LabPlot is just too much work...

The manual says otherwise:

https://docs.labplot.org/en/import_export/import_export_sql....

https://doc.qt.io/archives/qt-5.15/sql-driver.html

Are you talking about something else?

Post reply on HN