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Polyhedron visualisation
I would like to recommend free MATLAB based software that implements a new visualization technique for polyhedra. It is called "boundary interval method", and its primary purpose is to depict ...
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Best Free Alternative to Tableau
Thanks for the question. I too have spent a lot of time handcrafting reports and was exposed to Tableau when others at a previous employer used it. I downloaded the trial, worked my way through the ...
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Tool to Visualize SQL Database Schema for Linux/Windows
You can try DbVisualizer. Most of its features I have described in my answer to a related post, so you can take a look.
In general it is a free Java-based tool for database management, that supports ...
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Linux alternative to Excel pivot table
I would suggest taking a look at python/iPython & pandas data visualization.
Interactive in web browser with iPython & Scriptable
Pivot tables are a single line: e.g.: df.pivot(index='date', ...
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Gratis tool to visualize project dependencies for Visual Studio 2013 solution
Solution Dependency Viewer by Microsoft for Visual Studio 2013.
Solution Dependency Viewer provides a graph layer to the solution with
projects represented as nodes and project references ...
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Alternative for Graphviz with better automatic node placement for large graphs?
This would certainly be considered a "GraphViz-based solution", but if you're working with GraphViz you may want to check out Gephi. It's far more capable when it comes to processing large graphs.
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Quick and Easy Data Model Diagrams (ERD)
I think QuickDatabaseDiagrams will suit you perfectly... but I do work there!
Pros
Free
It really is very quick. You just type and it draws the diagram.
Relationships are drawn from field to field ...
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Software to draw the data flow of a program?
As much as I like some of the tools mentioned (I upvoted yEdit & highly recommend it), as programmer I sometimes eschew drag & drop, GUI based, tools in favour of those which take their input ...
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Web charts for time series
The closest NPM / JS library that exists today that will allow you "visualize" data ( I've searched extensively ) is dc.js based on crossfilter although it won't do it automatically without any ...
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mysql database visualization software for windows 7
There are plenty of these, and G.I.Y.F. But, what's wrong with the classic MySql workbench?
In addition to allowing you to graphically create a new data base schema (and generate code to create it), ...
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Which application to draw flowcharts like this?
Look at diagrams.net (formerly draw.io). It is gratis (free of cost). I use it intensively as a software engineer to architect and design different workflows.
There is also a desktop app for the same ...
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Program to visually organize family trees
Your use case is a type of "graph diagram" or "network diagram", and what I use for those is yEd. Its home page does specifically mention that it supports family tree diagrams.
I believe it meets all ...
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Best Free Alternative to Tableau
I don't think you have the right approach. You are supposing that an exact clone of Tableau is the best answer. It might not be.
Notice that if Tableau (which I don't know and don't care about) was ...
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Avro data file gui viewer/editor
Maybe Avro tools can fit your need. It doesn't have a GUI, but it's provided directly by Apache (direct JAR download).
More about this tools on the Michael Nool's blog post.
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Library for component graph display with Qt
Maybe too late but still here is the library I develop for general-purpose node graph editing.
https://github.com/paceholder/nodeeditor
Key Features:
Based on Qt 5.x with C++14
Based on ...
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Cheap software/app to publish interactive graphs (like Excel's Pivot Charts) online
The Shiny app by the folks from RStudio helps you do that. It is a web application framework for your R analytics and code.
It helps you apply requisite filters which you can define, and you can ...
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Cheap software/app to publish interactive graphs (like Excel's Pivot Charts) online
Similar to what Dawny mentioned above, there is also Plot.ly which you can use exactly like you would use Excel online. There is also a Powerpoint add-on to have the interactive graphs inside ...
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Database schema visualization for MS SQL Server
SAP PowerDesigner does the job but it's superexpensive (I think ~5000+ EUR per seat). The feature is called "reverse engineering a database". You just point it to a database (not just SQL Server but ...
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Database schema visualization for MS SQL Server
SchemaCrawler is a free, open-source database discovery tool that can reverse engineer your existing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. Take a look at examples of the SchemaCrawler Database Diagrams.
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Complex SQL Query visualizer
This online SQL parser visualises data flows and table joins in SQL statements -- see demo. It comes with a free tier.
disclaimer: I am co-founder of SQLdep (somebody who got too lazy to manually ...
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Open source GUI program for producing plots/graphs
If you need an application to create simple 2D graphs I can recommend jag (https://github.com/seleznevae/jag). I developed it some time ago. Jag was initially designed for engineers who spend a bunch ...
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Open source GUI program for producing plots/graphs
I can answer my own question now. There are many alternatives, all of them seem very good so I am more than happy that there are not one but many active replacements for Grapher/Surfer for the Linux ...
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Is there a better software/library towards analytics (and visualisation)?
You don't mention where these data are stored, so I guess it's on a database.
If you are looking for something Open Source, Free and on-premises have a look at Metabase.
It takes really just 5 ...
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Gantt diagram generator from textual representation
I don't see any reason why https://github.com/mermaidjs/mermaid.cli wouldn't work in your case. MIT licensed, it should allow you to save this into gantt.txt
gantt
title A Gantt Diagram
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Visio alternative for OSX
There are some great suggestions above. However, I will add OpenOffice Draw as a good Visio replacement on the Mac as well. I was never a power Visio user so not sure how it compares for really fancy ...
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Trace a beam within the interior of a 3D model
I think I'd look at OnShape for CAD-like and parametric 3D modeling, but for the kind of visualization you're looking at, I think you may want to look at Blender, or any other of the major DCC 3D apps ...
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Software Library to Replicate Logic Analyzer functions with pre-acquired signal data
I think that you need to take a look at SigRock:
Python
Open Source
Cross Platform
Plug in decoders including I2C
Works with a variety of hardware or file captures, you may need to do a little work ...
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Free XML IDE (alternative for Stylus Studio)
I think that XmlSpy or Liquid XML Studio accomplishes the requisites, but I'm not sure about the multi-XSD. However, the applications I mentioned are paid products.
I think you should consider that ...
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