A graph/chart that can zoom in to show detail

grumpyskeptic · 06-05-2019, 03:55 PM

My operating system is Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa Cinnamon.

I have a lot of XY data that I want to plot on a graph/chart, as points joined by lines. There is so much data that the whole thing will look like a blob of scribble.

I want to be able to interactively zoom in a lot so that I can search for particular features and fine detail in the data. The graph should be replotted rather than the image merely being magnified.

Is there any Linux software that can do this?

Thanks.

grumpyskeptic · 06-06-2019, 04:59 AM

I thought "chart" was the name in American-English for what we in Britain would call a graph, but I have now discovered that the more common American-English name is "plot".

Searching for "plot" in the Linux Mint software library has found several software programs, but I do not know which if any can interactively zoom in and move around to allow for visual searching, although something called Grace may do.