Kaleidagraph 3.5

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Summary: KaleidaGraph Software
Review: I teach many different software programs of this type and this is one of the most rewarding to teach. It is well thought out, easily navigated, and a powerful tool. It has the ability to make just about any type of technical graph and allow the user to analyse the data with very robust modeling tools. A serious program for scientist and engineers.

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Summary: Easy Enough for Beginners, Powerful Enough for Scientists
Review: I use Kaleidagraph with my general chemistry students, many of whom are beginners with weak math and science backgrounds. Very quickly they are able to excel with this data-handling and graphing software. The package is easy to use, fast, has intuitive spreadsheet calculation features, and prepares versatile graphs quickly. I use this software as a tool to train my students to understand data they collected and to relate the data to the physical significance of the experiments they perform. All of the physical sciences in our program now use it.

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Summary: Easy Enough for Beginners, Powerful Enough for Scientists
Review: I use Kaleidagraph with my general chemistry students, many of whom are beginners with weak math and science backgrounds. Very quickly they are able to excel with this data-handling and graphing software. The package is easy to use, fast, has intuitive spreadsheet calculation features, and prepares versatile graphs quickly. I use this software as a tool to train my students to understand data they collected and to relate the data to the physical significance of the experiments they perform. All of the physical sciences in our program now use it.

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Summary: Powerful yet easy
Review: I've had experience with several graphing programs to prepare presentations and manuscripts for biology journals. Kaleidagraph is as powerful as any of the others, but much easier to use. It was born on the Mac and it shows in its user-friendliness. You can edit the properties of just about any element on the graph by double-clicking on it. Most of the menus and dialog boxes are very intuitive - you don't need to go searching through a maze of successive dialog boxes to find the feature you're looking for. There is a wide range of graph types and features available, and graphs are easily updated when data are modified. Formulas can be written within the data spreadsheets to perform functions on entered data. Preexisting graphs can be used as templates for new graphs, preserving font sizes, symbols, text boxes, etc. The export options (esp. Windows metafile) are very useful in incorporating the graphs in other documents. Perhaps most importantly, I haven't experienced any glitches (corrupted files, features not working properly) as I have with other well-known programs.

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Summary: One of the best around
Review: KaleidaGraph is the best graphing/analysis package available in its price range, and I have tried many. The program is very easy to learn and yet has very powerful capabilities - for instance I have used it to to full non-linear multiple independent-variable curve fitting. It also has macro capability so if you want to crunch your data (FFT's, derivs, integrals, anything you can program) before plotting it you can do so; and the macros are FAST. In addition, the user control of the graph appearance is remarkable, and output is easily of publication quality. Finally, I have called them with questions and suggestions for new features and they have been incredibly responsive and helpful- just try that with Excel! Overall top rated.