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Answer by Lesli Shambly for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

There are different software is used to design creative graphics. Graphics are basically a visual representation of colors. Some of the software are as follows: Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Adobe After...

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Answer by JeremyC for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

Although it might possibly be true as some of the answers and comments state that good graphics can be produced in Excel, there is one very big downside to using Excel for scientific graphics. The...

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Answer by Underminer for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

Excel can be used to create most graphics. It can be a bit click-y, but for one-off graphics, Excel is often the fastest way to create a custom graphic if you already know how to use it. The trick is...

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Answer by Josh Rumbut for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

Just to address your example specifically, the top example shows some signs of having been generated by MATLAB. MATLAB has documentation about how to make such a plot here. To add a little more...

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Answer by zwol for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

Slightly tangential: When it comes to the aesthetics of the output, the main advantage of the more technical tools recommended in other answers, over Excel and similar programs, is that they have...

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Answer by Jonas Mortensen for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

I'm a big fan of GraphPad Prism as I am not as skilled in the python, R or scripting in general (although I'm working on it). Prism is to me very intuitive and the GUI has all the buttons and taps for...

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Answer by henning for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

The R language has a number of libraries to produce clean looking graphs, for example ggplot2. The example below was made with the galluvial extension for ggplot2, one of many extensions that allow...

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Answer by Emma for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

There are quite a few options here, with varying levels of user-friendliness. Some I have used are: Grace: Quite simple to use, you input values through a *.dat file, and can manipulate plots through a...

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Answer by user2768 for Recommended tools for graphs and charts

LaTeX offers numerous packages, e.g., pgfplots.

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Recommended tools for graphs and charts

I have seen a couple of images in several papers like those attached below. These images are really expressive also nice i.e. look very scientific. I have no idea how to generate such images since I...

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