About DataScene™
DataScene is a data analysis, animation, and graphing software package
developed with the latest generation of computational technologies. With its
powerful and user-friendly interface, the user can easily manage and analyze
data, generate and view high quality graphs, produce online and offline
animations, monitor and chart real-time data, and print and export graphs and
charts.
DataScene Highlights
- Plotting 39 types of series with ultra-high
graph quality.
- 3D canvas for most graph types.
- Supporting a wide variety of highly customizable graphical elements, such
as transparent color, solid brush, gradient brush, image brush, hatch brush
with 56 textures, shadow, visual aspect settings, etc.
- Highly customizable and feature-rich graph axes, legend, marks, titles,
and walls.
- Rich text graph annotations with a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)
editor.
- Powerful math parser that supports 57 built-in mathematical and text
functions - which include special functions like Bessel, Beta, Gamma, Error,
Hypergeometric, etc.
- Import data from Microsoft® Excel, all kinds of text files (delimited
with any delimiter, CSV, and with fixed-width columns).
- Exporting to a variety of graph formats: BMP, JPG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, EMF,
PostScript, and PDF.
- Exporting animated graphs and charts to AVI and animated GIF for offline
playback.
- Super clean, friendly, context-sensitive, and configurable user interface.
- A rich set of graphical and data tools.
- Automatic graph update and result recalculation upon data source change.
Feature Matrix
DataScene™
comes in three different editions to meet different user needs: Community,
Lite, and Deluxe. The
following chart shows the features available in the three editions.
Legend: 
= Yes. Empty = No.
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Community |
Lite |
Deluxe |
| Data
I/O and Manipulations |
| Importing data into data tables |
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| Importing data into a data sequence |
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| Importing text files (fixed-width, delimited, CSV). |
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| Importing Excel files. |
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| Creating data
sequences |
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| Editing data
sequences |
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| Data table to data sequence
generation |
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| Data sequence to data
table generation |
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| Column
and cell formulas |
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| Time-dependent
formulas |
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| Automatic
2D grid creation |
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| Exporting data to text
files |
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| Graphing and Charting |
| Plotting 39 Series
in high-quality graphs |
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| 3D canvas and aspect
settings (rotation, elevation, perspective, tilt, etc) |
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| Transparent color, shadow, bevel, and various brush types (Solid,
Hatch with 56 textures, Gradient, and Image) |
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| 16 built-in themes
and custom themes |
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| Rich text annotations |
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| Highly customizable legends,
titles, axes, panel, and walls |
|
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| Multiple graphs on the same
canvas |
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| Automatic update of graphs upon data source change |
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| Exporting graph to various formats. |
Bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF. |
Bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, EMF, PostScript, and
PDF.
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Bitmap, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, EMF, PostScript, and
PDF.
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| Data and Graph Processing |
| Processing graphs with 20 series
functions (Cublic Spline,
Moving Average, Differentiation,
FFT, Nonlinear
Fit, etc) |
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| Data generation in series
functions |
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| Recursive series
functions |
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| Math parser with 57 built-in mathematical and text functions |
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| Graph
Animation |
| Animation using
time-dependent mathematical formulas |
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| Animation using sequences of
data |
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| Animation meter |
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| Exporting animated graphs and charts to files in animated GIF and
AVI formats |
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| Graph Tools |
| Animation tools (Animator,
Animation Meter,
Graph Sequence, Time
Travel, and Data
Sequence) |
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| Refreshing
Linked Data |
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| Graph manipulation tools
(Rotate, Pan,
Magnifier, Graph
Layout, etc) |
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| Utility tools (Cursor,
Grow, Screen
Reader, Column Formulas,
etc) |
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| Real-time Data Monitoring |
| Real-time monitoring, charting, and
processing |
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| Other |
| Dockable and configurable user interface |
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| User-specific program settings |
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See Also
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