The Political Physicist

 The ramblings of a left-wing research software engineer…


Articles with tag “Plotting”

Gnuplotting, LaTeXing, and Other Made Up Verbs

Anyone who knows me in person and has seen me do any amount of work in physics knows that my preferred graphing software is Gnuplot. The only place where I’ve every really had a problem with Gnuplot is when it comes to including special characters and math in axis labels. What is needed is a way for Gnuplot to be able to work with LaTeX notation.

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C. MacMackin
I am a research software engineer, writing code for scientists working on fusion energy. I am also an active member of the Prospect trade union.