eplot is an Emacs package for generating time series charts, plots and bar charts interactively.
One of the items on my todo list was: IMG » IMG »
And that's because I've been looking for an easy way to do simple plots for yonks. When I did a post about movie ratings, I tried chart.el:
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It's a built-in thing in Emacs that has its origins as a testing tool for eieio, and as such, it is pretty limited. But it basically did what I needed? Except for... man, look at that Y axis. This cannot stand!
This article describes how to use GNU Emacs for quick data visualization in combination with Gnuplot. It provides a command that can be used to visualize the correlation of data without needing any setup or specific files. The article also includes an example of a command for generating a graph using a data range selected with a rectangle command copy-rectangle.