New Origin version 8.0
22 October, 2007
Origin 8.0 introduces a new multi-sheet workbook to facilitate the management of data, images, graphs and results.
The new Origin 8 offers a completely new workbook that forms the centrepiece of the Origin workspace. With the multi-sheet workbook, Origin users can efficiently organise and manage data, analysis reports, graphs and images using an intuitive and flexible interface.
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“For Origin 8, we have nearly revamped the entire application, making significant improvements in how data, graphs and analysis results are created, explored and organised. Just for starters, our implementation of Edward Tufte’s sparklines in our new workbooks will allow users to quickly and easily get a feel for their worksheet data. It can be said that this new version defines a new product category – one that offers the best of many worlds and seamlessly integrates it all: the familiarity and versatility of workbooks, publication-quality graphics, high-end data analysis and straightforward algorithm development.” - OriginLab’s founder and President, Dr. C.P. Yang.
Multi-sheet workbooks now provide a handy way to keep related data, analysis results and graphs together. Furthermore, users can create attractive reports using worksheet customisation such as rich text cell formatting and cell borders. To provide full control over workbook content, sheets can be moved, added, inserted or deleted. As a special capability, Origin’s workbooks can contain graphs and images within cells – allowing for workbooks as an organisational container, or to aid image processing.
New in Origin 8, analysis results can be automatically placed into a worksheet within the raw data's workbook. In this way, parameter values, statistics and related analysis graphs are just a click away whenever looking at the original data. This new concept provides much better organisation and more detailed reports compared to previous versions. As an added convenience, results of any previous analysis operation may be updated if the source data or analysis parameters are changed. To take advantage of both result consolidation and recalculation, users can set up an analysis operation as desired, with customised dialog settings, then save the workbook or even an entire Origin project as a template. Later, future analysis of the same type of data may be quickly performed by simply replacing the original data.
Just as Origin places graphs within result worksheet cells, users can place their own graphs in worksheet cells to create a custom report. An embedded graph may be modified for publication or presentation at any time simply by double-clicking on it to launch a graph window. After the graph has been customised, and the graph window is closed, updates are saved to the embedded graph contained in the worksheet cell.
Origin offers special embedded graphs, called sparklines, within worksheet column headers. Column sparklines provide small profiles of the column’s data, which allows the user to quickly view the profile of the data in ways that have not been possible in past versions or any products within Origin's marketplace. To further permit one to see trends within data, the aspect ratio of column sparklines can be easily changed by changing the column width and/or row height. Origin also allows any graph to be copied to the clipboard as a sparkline so that a small, word-sized graphic may be used within text documents.
Origin 8 significantly builds upon OriginLab’s tradition of providing the required blend of tools to accommodate both the novice and advanced users.
The new multi-sheet workbooks with rich text formatting makes it easy to consolidate and manage imported data, images, database query results, analysis reports and publication-quality graphs.
With addition of its new workbook and expanded data analysis capabilities, Origin has evolved from a popular graphing software to become a full-fledged data analysis and graphing workspace.
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