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{{Short description|Application for interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data}}

{{notability|date=July 2024}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = LabPlot

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| developer = [[KDE]]

| released = {{Start date and age|2001}} (version 0.1, under the name QPlot)<br />{{Start date and age|2003}} (version 1.0, renamed to LabPlot)

| latest release version = 2.1112.1

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|20242025|0708|1618|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web | url=https://labplot.kde.org/20242025/0708/1618/labplot-2-1112-1-released/ | title=LabPlot 2.1112.1 released – LabPlot| date=1618 JulyAugust 20242025}}</ref>

| programming language = [[C (programming language)|C]], [[C++]]

| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]]<br/>[[OS X]]<br/>[[Linux]]<br/>[[FreeBSD]]<br/>[[Haiku_(operating_system)|Haiku]]

| genre = [[List of information graphics software|Scientific plotting]]<br/>[[Data analysis]]<br/>[[Curve fitting]]<br/>[[Regression analysis]]<br/>[[Statistics|Statistical analysis]]<br/>[[Data processing]]<br/>[[Digitization|Plot digitization]]<br/>[[Notebook interface]]<br/>[[Real-time data]]

| license = [[GNU_GPLv2|GPL-2.0-or-later]]

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'''LabPlot''' is a [[free and open-source software|free and open-source]], [[cross-platform]] computer program for interactive [[Plot (graphics)|scientific plotting]], [[curve fitting]], [[nonlinear regression]], [[data processing]] and [[data analysis]]. LabPlot is available, under the [[GNU_GPLv2|GPL-2.0-or-later]] license, for [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[macOS]], [[Linux]], [[FreeBSD]] and [[Haiku_(operating_system)|Haiku]] operating systems.

It has a [[graphical user interface]], a [[command-line interface]], and an interactive and animated [[notebook interface]]. It is similar to [[Origin (data analysis software)|Origin]] and able to import Origin's data files.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Косуліна |first1=Н.Г. |title=Програмне Забезпечення Обов'язкових Та Вибіркових Освітніх Компонентів Освітньої Програми «біомедична Інженерія» |work=Sciences of Europe |issue=131 |page=77 |publication-date=December 2023 |trans-title=Software of mandatory and optional educational components Educational program “Biomedical Engineering” |url=https://www.europe-science.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Sciences-of-Europe-No-131-2023.pdf |place=[[Prague]], Czech Republic |last2=Сухін |first2=В.В. |last3=Чорна |first3=М.О. |last4=Ляшенко |first4=Г.А. |last5=Коршунов |first5=К.С. |lang=uk}}</ref> Features include the [[Hilbert transform]] function, statistics, [[Image color transfer|color maps]], conditional formatting, and multi-axes.<ref>{{Citation |last=Carmona |first=Marco |title=7 Free and Open Source Plotting Tools [For Maths and Stats] |date=2021-11-08 |work=It’s FOSS |url=https://itsfoss.com/open-source-plotting-apps/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |language=en}}</ref>

It has a [[graphical user interface]], a [[command-line interface]] and an interactive and animated [[notebook interface]] to mathematical and statistical packages and programming languages.

== History ==

In 2008, developers of LabPlot and [[SciDAVis]] (another Origin clone, forked from [[QtiPlot]]) "found their project goals to be very similar" and decided to merge their code into a common backend while maintaining two frontends: LabPlot, integrated with the [[KDE]] desktop environment (DE); and SciDAVis, written in DE-independent [[Qt (software)|Qt]] with fewer dependencies for easier cross-platform use.<ref>{{citation|url=http://dot.kde.org/2009/10/16/labplot-and-scidavis-collaborate-future-free-scientific-plotting|title = LabPlot and SciDAVis Collaborate on the Future of Free Scientific Plotting|date = 16 October 2009}}</ref>

This program was started by Stefan Gerlach in 2001 under the name Qplot. Its initial 1.0 release is date 2003. It has undergone a large rewrite released under the name labplot 2.0 in 2014. As of 2024 the latest version is numbered 2.11, released in july 2024.

Starting April 2024, LabPlot received funding from [[NLnet]]'s NGI0 Core grant to add scripting capabilities (via Python and a [[public interface]]), more data analysis functions, and [[statistical analysis]] features.<ref>{{Citation |title=LabPlot |work=Projects |url=https://nlnet.nl/project/LabPlot/ |access-date=2024-08-22 |publisher=[[NLnet]] Foundation}}</ref>

== Features ==

Labplot is project oriented, that is not only aimed at producing plots, but instead its goal is to produce complete notebooks, encompassing large amount of data and letting users manipulate and analyze it through a very large set of tools :

* Visualization tools;

* statistics;

* Data analysis (e.g. regressions, Hilbert transform, etc);

* Interface to mathematical and programming languages (e.g. Maxima, R, Octave, scilab, Python, Lua, etc);

* Data extraction from plots.

== External links ==

* [https://labplot.kde.org LabPlot Homepage]

* [https://invent.kde.org/education/labplot/ Source Code]

==See also==

{{Portal|Free and open-source software|Mathematics}}

* [[List of statistical software]]

* [[List of information graphics software]]

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==References==

{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* [{{Official website|https://labplot.kde.org LabPlot Homepage]/}}

* [https://nlnet.nl/project/LabPlot/ NLnet Foundation grant]

{{KDE}}

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