Presentation Graphics 2003 Readers’ Choice Award Winner: Origin

Origin is all-in-one scientific graphing and analysis software that features over 60 basic plot types allowing users to create 2-D, 3-D, contour, and image graphs. Users can easily construct and control multiple-axis and multiple-panel graphs, as well as annotate graphs with in-place text editing and embellish using modern drawing tools. It imports data from a wide selection of formats, or opens Microsoft Excel within the application. Specialized tools allow zoom-in for inspection, reading values and masking data from analysis.