Scientific Plotting Software for OS X

This is a list of general data plotting packages and some with analysis capabilities as well. The listing has "MSRP". Academic, Student, Government, Volume pricing is perhaps lower! These are single node, perpetual license. Many of the moderate level have "student" editions for $100. These are for base packages without "addons". The grouping of the pricing is somewhat interesting!

Sorted by price and subsorted by alphabet.
Free = $0, Most available through Fink
Ctioga http://sciyag.rubyforge.org/ctioga/index.html
gdl http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net
gnuplot/Aquaterm http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot
gnuplot/Qgfe http://www.xm1math.net/qgfe
Grace http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace
HippoDraw http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw
Generic Mapping Tools http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu
Grapher http://www.apple.com
Matplotlib/Python http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net
Octave http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/octave
OpenDX http://www.bu.edu/cism/cismdx
ParaView/vtk http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Index.html
Pgplot/Python http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot
Plot http://plot.micw.eu/Main/HomePage
QtiPlot http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html
Plotter http://www.surfnetusa.com/jimd/objectivec.html
R http://www.r-project.org
RL Plot http://rlplot.sourceforge.net
Tioga http://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/~paxton/tioga.html
Veusz http://home.gna.org/veusz
VisIt/vtk http://www.llnl.gov/visit
vtk http://www.vtk.org
vvidget http://www.vvidget.org
Cheap < $100
$8 XYVue http://www.damhave.com/XyVue/XyVue.html
$30 DataPlot http://www.visualdatatools.com/DataPlot/index.html
$30 Graph Sketcher http://www.graphsketcher.com
$39 3D Data Visualizer Pro http://www.optunis.com
$60 Graphing calculator http://www.pacifict.com
$95 Profit http://www.quansoft.com
Moderate < $1000
$120 Citrin http://www.gigawiz.com
$200 KaleidaGraph http://www.synergy.com
$299 Deltagraph http://www.redrocksw.com
$445 Aabel http://www.gigawiz.com
$495 SmileLab http://www.satimage.fr/software
$550 Igor http://www.wavemetrics.com
$715 DataDesk http://www.datadesk.com
Expensive > $1000
$1195 DataTank http://www.visualdatatools.com
$1500 Tecplot Focus http://www.tecplot.com/products/focus/focus_main.htm
$1880 Mathematica http://www.wolfram.com
$1895 Maple http://www.maplesoft.com
$1900 MatLab http://www.mathworks.com
$2400 IDL http://www.ittvis.com
$3750 Tecplot http://www.tecplot.com
and of course the extra category: Stupid: Excel "A wordprocessor that calculates" -- Gary Johnson

Other lists of Scientific Graphics Resources:

http://www.acm.org/tog/Software.html
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/faq
http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/StatResource.html
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Scientific/Processing_and_Visualization
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Scientific/Statistics_and_Graphing

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