


Allow me to document that story here in the likely chance that I'll otherwise forget it. Installing Matlab is as simple as starting and installer and letting it do the work, whereas installing Matplotlib was another story. While Matlab has a single application (plus many toolkits) to install, the Pythonic solution has no less than Python + Numby + Scipy + Matplotlib to get things rolling. I also had lots of fun with Python, so my hunt brought me to the Matplotlib, a Pythonic scientific graphing tool. Thus started my slow search for alternatives, preferably open source alternatives with combined graphing capabilities.

I had lots of fun with Matlab in grad school, but I always had in the back of my mind that at some point my educational subscription would run out.
