underdogs
Emacs in scientific computing
Part 5 of my series of Scientific Computing underdogs! GNU emacs is widely know as a powerful text editor for, e.g., programming. Its indentation and syntax highlighting are excellent. However, I realized I have been using it for a while to deal with raw data – in this regard one could call this program an [...]
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Ok, how is awk an underdog in scientific computing. Well, it is very well suited for performing simple tasks on data files. E.g., you may run awk ‘{print $1-45,$2/1800*0.82}’ intr.dat To shift the x value from the first column of the data file, and scale the y value from the second. Or anything one could [...]
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Part 3 of my series on scientific computing underdogs!!! gnuplot has been around for a long, long time. One of its main features is that it can run as a session, in a terminal. This is helpful when graphics are not available, e.g. in a remote login session. Just type “set terminal dumb” to get [...]
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Part 2 of my series of scientific computing underdogs! When it comes to plotting and analyzing data, I think a lot of people use (xm)grace, specially those working in linux and other UNIX-like environments. The other main plotting solution is, of course, gnuplot, which is nicely complementary (probably an underdog, too, deserving its own entry). [...]
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Part 1 on my series of scientific software underdogs! Thanks to Descartes, most publications show graphs of results, but no data. Of course, the corresponding tables would take lots of paper space. (Lately, many journals offer free additional online repositories for this sort of data, but this good idea seems to be catching on rather [...]
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