Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
Physics education research, electronic materials, and the musings of Christopher Moore, Ph.D.
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I would like to know what are the software tools most used to:
-write scientific papers
-do graphics
-do statistical analysis
At the moment, I'm using LaTex to write my scientific papers, and R to make some graphics... What do you think about these?
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Well I guess it depends on what you do. The papers I put together for submission to journals are written in Word. I'm a microscopist, so the images are exported from the imaging software and cropped and processed using Adobe Photoshop. For graphs and spectra I export raw data into Microcal Origin.
LaTeX works well too, but I have no interest in learning the scripting format, so until a really good WYSIWYG editor comes out (and I have yet to see a "good" one designed for non-coder guys like me) then I'm sticking to Word.
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