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However, some of these are part of a numerical analysis package. Some alternatives include MATLAB, Qtiplot, SciDAVis, Grace and LabPlot. The tool offers a scripting language, termed KstScript based upon JavaScript syntax which can help automate workflows. Kst is able to accept a number input formats with Dirfiles being particularly suitable for streaming applications and plug-in extension filters enabling other input stream types and file formats to be added. The program has been recommended for real time graphical display of an open energy monitoring project. Real-time applications vary in size from simple graphing of a sensor from a microcontroller such as arduino that may be set up by a hobbyist to a simple sensor to plotting of real time date from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. Kst has been chosen where there is a need to present plots in real-time. It is also able to process Network Common Data Form (NETCDF) files for 2-d plotting Real-time plotting capability Kst is able to plot histograms and 3-D with color and contour mapping for 3-D images.

Kst is a fast real-time large-dataset plotting and viewing tool with basic data analysis functionality. It is targeted towards large (million element) data sets. Kst is written in C++ and based upon the Tk tollkit. By 2004 it had begun to be used in various universities and the European Space Agency and development was funded by the Canadian Space Agency. Kst was initially developed by Barth Netterfield, an astrophysicist as a personal project.
