Comment by jabl
20 hours ago
I suppose this is a FOSS solution for the roughly same space occupied by commercial tools like Origin, that are very popular in some scientific communities.
They can be useful if you have other tools (e.g. measurement software) that already produces the data you want, and you just want a GUI tool to create plots, and maybe do some simple things like least squares curve fitting etc.
If you already do a lot of data wrangling in something with a programming language and plotting libraries accessible from said language, like the ones you mention, yeah, this is not the tool for you.
It is! I remember using this (or SciDavis, a related project) a couple of years back in college. It was not as powerful as Origin 10 years ago, but it ran on Linux.
This is great for people who don't know nor want to learn to program.
Same experience here! We used Origin and/or QtiPlot in a physics lab for the graphs and quick regressions.