Axum 6.0

by MathSoft Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00002S5W0
• Item model number: 43061
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,552 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Engineers, scientists, researchers, and technical professionals worldwide count on Axum for great-looking, publication-quality graphs. Now you too can take your technical graphing to a higher level, while minimizing your time and effort. All you need is new Axum 6, the powerful, easy way to bring a wide range of new capabilities to your desktop.

Axum combines the ease of use of the bestselling PC business graphics packages with powerful features. Just select your data, click the desired chart toolbar button, and watch Axum create your graphs instantly--with professional results. With Axum 6 you can choose from one of over 90 2-D and 3-D plot types. With new ease-of-use enhancements, customization features, and robust data-analysis capabilities, you'll find it's a snap to make your technical work stand above the rest.

Axum gives you more control over creating and fine-tuning your graphs. With unique features such as multipanel conditioning plots, customizable toolbars and menus, and a seamless link with PowerPoint 7.0, Axum 6 is the premier choice when it comes to technical graphics and data analysis.

Axum's intuitive interface makes it easy to learn and use. Just import your data from nearly any program, select the data, and click on a 2-D or 3-D plot button to create a graph instantly. Axum takes the hassle out of preparing your papers for publication by letting you produce publication-quality documents easily on your own printer. Print to any Windows-compatible printer or plotter, export your graphs in a variety of formats, or cut and paste into your favorite word processor or desktop publisher. You can even use Send Mail to send Axum documents to colleagues via e-mail.

With Axum you can combine multiple data sets and multiple axes on one graph. Axum automatically arranges multiple, editable graphs on a page with perfect margins. Use multiple axes breaks, rotate 3-D graphs interactively, and color drape surfaces. You have the flexibility to produce stunning technical graphs to your specifications.

With Axum, you not only get the basic 2-D graphs types such as line, bar, area, scatter, and pie, you get the specialized graph types that scientists need--curve fitting, histograms, polar plots, error bars, vector plots, lowess plots, bubble plots, and more. With more than 90 plot types available, you can always find the right plot for your project.

Axum lets you easily control all individual line thicknesses, symbol sizes, fonts, colors, titles, tick marks, axis labels and more. Insert multiple-line text in comments, titles, and tick labels. Greek characters and superscript and subscript options are conveniently located on a toolbar for quick access, so editing any text or equation is a snap.

With Axum you can edit any object just by pointing and clicking. Double-click to bring up a dialog; right-click to access a shortcut menu. You always have instant access to editing the properties of any object on your graph. You can even keep an object's dialog open and watch the property values change as you interactively edit the object. Alternatively, you can watch the object change as you modify its properties in the dialog.

Axum's built-in data analysis can reveal hidden patterns in your data. Transform, manipulate, and sort virtually unlimited-sized data sets. Do basic and advanced statistics, including nonlinear curve fitting. Get more data smoothing options, including loss regression technique.

New statistical techniques include hypothesis testing, power and sample size calculations, logistic and log-linear regression, and time-series calculations. New statistical dialogs offer a variety of diagnostic plots. Report windows can be used for viewing statistical results. You can even edit and embed graphs within these reports.

Axum's panel plots let you drag and drop to instantly divide your graph into panels of subsamples. Just drag a column of data onto the top of your graph to set the conditioning variable. Axum will automatically divide your date set into subsamples, plotting them in separate side-by-side panels. Go further, and rotate your 3-D graphs in multiple panels for the best perspective. You'll quickly see patterns in your data you can't see using traditional data analysis techniques.

Axum's flexibility is hard to beat, so it meets the needs of your specific projects and work style. Axum's graphical customization of menus and toolbars requires no programming. User-defined dialogs allow you to create a dialog for any function, and Axum fully supports ActiveX controls within dialogs. Here are just some of the things you can do with Axum to make your work a little easier: Name individual rows, label columns using Datatips, automatically store all your data objects, create your own folders, and drag and drop your objects and documents. You can browse and access your data objects and documents, select data columns, and graph them in Axum's Object Explorer. Search for matching parentheses, brackets, and braces with the improved script editor--even run Axum 5.0 scripts. Utilize the optional condensed history log for a summary of your actions.

Design menus and toolbars to meet your needs exactly. Create multiple, custom toolbars by just dragging a script or portion of a script onto the toolbar. Click on the button and the script is generated automatically. Customize built-in menus and even create user-defined dialogs for any function. Then deploy graphing solutions to others in your organization.

Use the S-PLUS programming language for scripting and interactive computing. Create data, analyze models, and perform diagnostics. New interoperability lets you load data and graph sheets from S-PLUS directly into Axum 6.0. A full-featured commands window lets you interactively perform S-PLUS programming.

With Axum's superb interoperability features, it's easy to enhance your technical work with publication-quality graphics. Simply drag and drop, then link data from your favorite OLE 2-compliant spreadsheets or paste graphs into your word processing application. A real time saver is the PowerPoint presentations you'll create automatically from your Axum graphs. Just click on a button for Axum's PowerPoint wizard. Choose the Axum graphs you want to display, then click OK--it's that fast and easy.

Enjoy smoother interoperability with Mathcad. Gain access to S-PLUS, the powerful and flexible programming language. Create Axum plots in your spreadsheets with new Excel and SPSS add-ins. Paste graphs into your word processing program. Import data from Excel, Lotus, S-PLUS, dBase, SAS, MATLAB, and via ODBC. Export data into many formats, including Excel, dBase, SPSS, SAS, and MATLAB. Work easily with other ActiveX applications with automation clien and server support. Use Java, Visual Basic, or PowerBuilder to drive Axum from another application. Or create programs within Axum to drive other programs.

Axum includes extensive context-sensitive online help, an interactive tutorial, and many examples. A comprehensive user's guide is provided to answer all of your technical graphing and data analysis questions.

From Winmag®

Axum 6 is a moderately priced technical graphing and statistics package--essentially a subset of MathSoft's S-PLUS statistics and graphing package. Axum includes ninety 2D and 3D chart types and a good assortment of common statistical functions. Just about the only useful chart type it lacks is the triangular plot, used by chemists and metallurgists.

Axum has strong data import and management facilities to complement its core data-analysis and display functions. I easily imported a table from an ODBC database, picked three variables, plotted them in 3D, conditioned them using a fourth variable to generate a dozen graphs of smaller data sets and generated best-fit surfaces for all the graphs by linear regression.

Axum 6 is also an ActiveX server that works well with Mathcad, Excel and SPSS. It imports data from spreadsheets, databases and statistics programs, and can convert its charts into PowerPoint slides.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars very very very very disappointed, March 6, 2001

By 

Henry Teng (Washington, DC, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Axum 6.0 (CD-ROM)

This version of Axum (6) definitely is much much less than what it purports to be. It may have had all the bells and whistles in terms of plotting power (I have not tried all), but the user interface is terribly not friendly. You can try this: make a graph, then go to print setup to change page from landscape to portait. If you luckily go through, then go to undo, or go to print setup to change back to landscape, 9 out of 10 times you will be errorred out. Also try this, make a scatter (x, y1, y2, y3, y4.....y10) plot, then try to change all datapoints to the same symbols. It certainly takes at least 10 tedious steps to accomplish this. In summary, I strongly suggest you stay away from it if you have the option.