Ascii histograms and more cool data analysis tools in Python

library/program site: http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/

sample session transcript: http://pastebin.com/w8GxRPzU

This kind of ASCII dumping of data was the standard for a long time, and even in the early 90s, people used things like ASCII terminals (e.g. the wonderful Falcos that could superimpose simple graphics on a "2nd" alternatively shown display page).

E.g. have a look at the printout on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wow!_signal , that's most likely a "waterfall" display of received signals on a astronomical radio-telescope with number 0...9, A...Z (or something like that) representing the bin scale.

Also gnuplot has useful drivers to dump out ASCII pictures (or, using the XTERM Tektronix graphics capabilities, also line graphics). This even works over a simple ssh-session, so it might even be an advantage if you have to check some data on a distant machine.

Or scp the data over, and use Excel ;-) {NO! JUST JOKING!}

I'm curious what that has to do with data analysis.