CricketGraph was a graphic software program for the
Apple
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Macintosh
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by
Cricket Software
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sold until 1996. It could take tabulated data and create common business and statistics graphs such as bar chart, pie chart, scatter plots and radial plots. These graphs could be saved in common image formats such as
PICT and
EPS
EPS, EPs or Eps may refer to:
Commerce and finance
* Earnings per share
* Electronic Payment Services, in Hong Kong, Macau, and Shenzhen, China
* Express Payment System, in the Philippines
Education
* Edmonton Public Schools, in Edmonton, Al ...
and added to other documents. It did not have the same capabilities as a
spreadsheet
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.
Competition
The main
competitor was
Visual Business, as well as the built-in graphing packages in
Microsoft Excel
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,
Informix Wingz and specialty statistics software such as
Systat.
Although this package was written cleanly enough to run on much later versions of
Classic Mac OS
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, the feature set was eventually superseded by packages such as
DataGraph
DataGraph is a graphing and data analysis software application for the macOS operating system, developed by Visual Data Tools in Chapel Hill, NC. DataGraph is used for creating publication quality graphics, particularly for research and scienc ...
,
DeltaGraph and
KaleidaGraph.
See also
List of information graphics software
This is a list of software to create any kind of information graphics:
* either includes the ability to create one or more infographics from a provided data set
* either it is provided specifically for information visualization
Vector graphics
V ...
References
Plotting software
Classic Mac OS software
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