Key Features by Version (2024)

3D Graph with Double Z Axis

Graph Object Imprv: Ctrl+drag to create copy, Center, left or right align an object relative to graph page, Edit points for polyline, curve, polygon and region shapes

Object Manager(OM) Imprv: Button to toggle plot or object view, Button to add notes, Show text contents in OM, Indicate objects out of page

Triangle as Head and Tail of Color Scale

Support Image in Data Annotation

Support Specified Droplines at Y=

Show Arrow along Line Plot

Skip data points in 3D scatter graph

Waterfall: Fill color by Y values

Sankey: Hide Labels if Percentage Less than

Label Min & Max Points on Contour Graphs

Edit Group Member in Graph Objects Group

Align Single Layer relative to Page

Sheet Based Browser Plots

XYZ Heatmap Supports Multiple Z

Label Min & Max Points in Graph

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Substitution Notation Support in LaTeX

Index/Map Plot Elements by Column Label Row

Sankey: Index Label and Color of Nodes to Specific Column, Sankey Map Support Pie Node

Alluvial.: Sort Alluvial Node by Frequency, More Label Position Control

Waterfall: Support Filling to Next Plot

Apply Theme to Layer

Annotation: Angle Annotation, 3 Types of Asterisk Bracket, Arc Tool

Built-in Support for LaTeX Equations in Graphs, Layouts and Worksheet Cells

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Insert SVG Images in Graphs and Layouts with Support of further Processing and Real-time Update

Multiple Additional Planes for 3D Graphs

Label Reference Lines With a Column

Index the 3D Symbol Shape to a Column

Legend Imprv.: More Legend Info. Options, Attach Legend to End of Plot with Independent Information, Partial alignment of selected row, Show/Hide Function Plot And Equation In Legend, Specify Sort Order for Point-by-Point Legends, Add Custom Color Block

Axis Imprv: Different Rescale Margin in Each End of Axis, Align Y Axis on Single-Layer Double-Y graph, Axis Arrow Heads in 3D Graphs

Show Arrow in 3D Trajectory Graph

Colormap for Box Plots

Add Diagrammed Box-Style Legend to Box Chart

Spline Connection for 3D Lines

Insert Styled Worksheet In Graph or Layout

Smart Skipping of Symbols in Plots of Large Datasets

Line-Symbol Plot With Automatic X Value Sorting

Page/Layer Title with Proper Size, Wrap Text, etc.

Contour: Insert Multiple Custom Levels with Option for Turning on Lines and Labels

Alternate L-R Ticks And Labels Display in Stacked Plots

Toggle Selectability For Layer, Plot, Text, Etc. Using Mini Toolbar

Direction Arrangement Control of Multi-Layer Graphs

Support Stacking Plot Horizontally

Set Default Reference Line Style, More Reference Line Label Locations

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Separate Size Control for Minor Tick Labels

Ability to Change Font/Sizes on Axis Labels and Axis Titles Simultaneously

Text Label: Ability to Insert White Space, In-place Edit of Wrapped and Unwrapped Text

Column Spacing Gap for Each Set of Linked Layers

Custom Display of Positive/Negative (+/-) Sign in Worksheet, Text Labels

Hide Speed Mode Banner

Distance Annotation on Graphs

Show Unique Entries Only for Point by Point Legend

Dashed Line Customization

Box Chart: Connect Lines Support for Connection Types, Percentile Symbols Support Edge Thickness Control

Wrap Text in Tick Labels that Contain No Spaces

Align Option for Multi-line Data Labeling

Longer Minus Sign in Tick Labels

Remove Exponential Notation Common to All Tick Labels and Add to End of Axis

Text Label Improvements: Support Block Substitution Notation, Support Separator to Control Paragraph Space

Use Image File/Clipboard Image as User-defined Symbol in Scatter Plot

3D Bar Improvements: Support Fill Pattern, Support Bar from Top Plane

Gradient Fill For Drawing Object Such As Rectangle And Circle

Inserting Image Improvements: Crop, Clip, Rotate Inserted Image In Graph, Edit Inserted Images, Set Image Co-ordinate, Set Layer Scale to Match Inserted Image Co-ordinates, Support Images with Transparent Background (SVG, PNG)

New Arrange Layer Tool to Change Graph to MxN Layers

Enhance Grid Setting for Precise Reposition of Layers and Objects

Centroid And Subset Support For Line And Symbol Plot

Support Wrapping Text And Dragging To Resize Each Tick Table Row Height in Axis Table

Vertical Writing in Ticks Label for Japanese/Chinese

Plot Multi-Panel Graph by X

Contour Labels" Support Multiple Labels On One Contour Line, Follow The Flow Of Contour Line

Step-Horz Connect Control for Links in Sankey

Fill Area to Arbitrary Axis or Plot

Merge Graphs to Layout page

Insert Image Background in Graph

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Insert Map in Graphs

Group Plots Properties by Label Rows

Histograms: Support Log Scale for Bin, Support Overlapping and Skewed Histogram

Plot Color based on Positive Negative

Browser Graph: Increase speed, Spawn new graph with selected plots, Allow editing of metadata in navigation panel, Explore image stack of multiple matrix objects using Browser Graph for Image, Contour or Profile plots

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Stack Lines by Offset in Column Label Row (Metadata)

Common Color Scale Display for Multiple Surface Plot

Keep Layer Size when Merging Graph Windows

More Fill Area Options to Better Support Shapefile Data

Create Horizontal/Vertical Line and Support Dragging Layer/Object in Line When Holding SHIFT Key

Abilitity to Turn Browser Panel on for Regular Graphs

More Build-in Color Scheme

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Left, Right or Center Options for Tick Labels Alignment

Offset Overlapped Points Vertically

Center Layer in the Page

Support Rescale Type for Ternary Coordinates

Better Axis Display and Independent Histogram Binning Control in Scatter Matrix

Support Using Unicode Characters as Plot Symbols

Fill to Relative Base in Stack lines by Y Offset Graph

Special Points: Show Drop lines, Show Label using Flexible Syntax

Heatmap Improved to Support Triangle Shape and Label Color Follows Colormap

Apply Transparency to Symbol Fill Color Only

Further Box Chart Improvements: Whisker/Error Bar Drawn on Top of Data, Whisker Plus/Minus Only,Mean & Median Symbol for Grouped Box, Data Point Masking

Colormap: Specify Numeric Value for Middle Level in 3-Color Limited Mixing

Zoom and Rescale Hotkey for 3D Graphs

Skew 2D and Contour Plots by Adjusting Angles Between Axes

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Text Object and Legend Improvements: Support Wrap Text

Curve Tool for Freehand Drawing of Smoothed Line Object

New Preferences > Axis Options for Display of Zeros

Auto-rotate / Auto-hide Long or Overlapped Tick Labels

Faster Scatter and Contour Drawing Speed for Large Data

Supersubscript and Align Columns Control in Text Object Properties Dialog

Color Scale Improvements: Show Subrange of Color, Formula for Tick Labels, Show Major Levels Only, Show Min and Max Levels Only, Independent Control of Head and Tail, Right Align Tick Labels

Stack Lines by Y Offsets Supports Grouping by Label Row Data

Waterfall: Smoothed Connect Lines, Label at Specified Indices, Categorical Text Values for Z, Filling to Next Plot

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Support Remove Line Between Two Points on Line + Symbol Plots

Support Specified Color List for Color Mapping

Support Compound Line Style for Line Plot

Support 3-Color Limited Mixing for Color Mapping

Object Manager Improvements: Move Plot to Other Layer/Y Axis, Remove a Plot from a Group, Rename plot group's long name

New Legend Type: Categorical Legend for 3D XYZ Bar, New Legend for Fill Area Plot

Add Independent Color Scale on Layout Window

Provide Option to Put Axis Title to be in the Beginning/End of Axis

Support Special Point for 3D XYZ Bar Graph

Total Label for 3D Stacked Column/Bar Plots

2D Vector Plot: Support Line Style Customization, Adding Label

Create Custom Legend Entries

Statistics Reference Lines on Graph with Full Customization

Arrows at Axis Begin or End and can be Put Outside of Layer Frame

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Column Gap control for Double-Y Column Plot

Distribute Selected Layers/Graphic Objects Horizontally or Vertically

Symbol Size Increment For Each Plot in Group

Axis Break Supports Proportional Unit for Each Segment

Pick Data Points from Graph

New Annotation Dialog with More Controls for Object Customization

More Hatch Patterns, including Geology Patterns

Dropline Supports Direction Control and Arrow

Support More Bar Shapes for 3D Bars

Histograms: Label with bin counts, percentage or both

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Grouped Plots: Unbalanced subgroups can display grid line separators, set gaps by dataset

Support for all 2D objects in 3D graphs: Table, image, drawn objects, bubble scale, OLE object

Axis improvements: Multiple reference lines and shading between in 2D graphs; more rescale options, tick labels combine column labels, leader lines for special ticks, wrap tick labels for 3D plots

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New System Colors Give Your Graphs a Fresh Look.

Skip Weekend and Holidays in Financial Plot

Text and Legend Improvements: Multi-line Spacing, Annotation Customization, Legend Text Color same as Legend Symbols, Drag Legend to Multiple Columns, Hide Legend of Hidden Plots, Reverse Order of Legend

Show Symbol in 3D XYY Waterfall, Walls and Ribbons

Position Label/Metadata Anywhere on Data Plot

Align Layers at Specified Value, Share Common Scale among Layers

New Tab-based Axis Dialog with Multi-axis Selection and Easy Navigation

Wrap Axis Tick Labels, Customize Individual Special Ticks, Custom Axis Scale Formula for 3D OpenGL Axis

Contour Improvements: Boundary Customization, Further Color Scale Customization

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Linear and Nested Bubble Scale for Bubble Plot

Custom Percentile and Jitter Points in Box Chart

Plot: User Defined: Menu to Access Customized Templates

Smart Labels - Auto Position of Data Labels

User Defined Axis Scale Type

Multiple Axis Breaks with No Gap

Multiple Special Ticks Labels

Isometric - Link Axis Length to Scale by X/Y Ratio

More Legend Types: Box Chart Components, Point by Point, Categorical Values

Customized Color/Shape/Interior/Line Increment List for Plot

3D Surface Improvements: Lighting Effect, Mesh, Flatten, Shift

Zoom and Pan Inside Graph Layer

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Customizable Data Info Display Window to Read Coordinates and more

Transparency and Gradient Fill Control in Graphs

Embed and Edit Microsoft Word, Excel and Equation Objects Inside Graphs and Layouts

Non-Linear Z-Axis and Y- and Z-Value Colormap Support for Waterfall Plots

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Move, Rotate, Skew and Resize 3D Graphs

Axis Tick Locations Controls

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Box Chart with Box/Whisker/Outliers Controls

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Fill Area Under/Between Line Plots

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Polar Plot with Azimuth and Radial Axis Controls

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Key Features by Version (2024)

FAQs

What is origin in statistics? ›

Origin provides a number of statistical routines suitable for general statistical analyses, including descriptive statistics, one-sample and two-sample hypothesis tests, and one-way and two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). In addition, several statistical chart types are offered, including histograms and box charts.

How do you bring data into origin and what types of data? ›

Clipboard Data, Importing One obvious way to get data into Origin is simply to copy data to the Clipboard and paste it into Origin. This can be as easy as selecting a block of data in an Excel workbook and pasting it into an Origin workbook.

Why is Origin software used? ›

Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It has inspired several platform-independent open-source clones and alternatives like LabPlot and SciDAVis.

What are the features of statistics? ›

(a) Statistics are aggregate of facts (b) Statistics must be numerically expressed. (c) Statistics are collected for a pre-defined purpose (d) Statistics should be collected in a systematic manner. (e) Statistics are placed in relation to each other.

What are the three types of origin? ›

Some of the most common myths are about how the world, the universe, and humans came to be. There are three main types of origin myths explored in this lesson: Cosmogonic, Aetiological, and Foundational.

What does Origin of data mean? ›

The primary point where the data was generated or collected. (

How do I read data in Origin? ›

by hovering on the data point. Further, there is a Pick Points tool that opens by right-clicking on the tooltip. Double-click on data points of interest and output coordinate values and other information, to a workbook.

Why do you need Origin? ›

It's used for account management and ownership verification. If your concern is playing your games offline, you can choose to Go Offline within the Origin menu. You then shouldn't have any issues if connectivity is a potential problem area.

What is the difference between Origin and Excel? ›

Overview. Excel is a spreadsheet management software program with data analysis tools to help users track and visualize data for greater... OriginPro is a cloud-based data analysis and graphing software that provides a complete set of data exploration, peak fitting,...

What is Origin tool? ›

Origin is a complete data analysis and graphing tool providing a range of features (peak analysis, curve fitting, statistics…) to meet the quality requirements and specific needs of the scientific community (researchers, engineers, technicians…).

What is an example of origin? ›

the beginning or cause of something: It's a book about the origin of the universe. Her unhappy childhood was the origin of her problems later in life.

What is the simple definition of origin? ›

: the point or place where something begins or is created : the source or cause of something.

How do you find the origin? ›

What is the origin on a graph? A graph in the two-dimensional coordinate plane has the point (0,0) as its origin. The origin is located at the intersection of the vertical and horizontal axes, and the distance to all points can be measured from this point.

What is statistics origin and terms? ›

Although the term 'statistic' was introduced by the Italian scholar Girolamo Ghilini in 1589 with reference to a collection of facts and information about a state, it was the German Gottfried Achenwall in 1749 who started using the term as a collection of quantitative information, in the modern use for this science.

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