Scott Hannahs has compiled a fabulous list of the tools for Data Analysis available for Mac OS X for the SciTech mailing list and I thought it would be useful to spread the word. Remember that many of the more expensive applications have free/cheap education or student versions.

Free = $0

gnuplot see also Qgfe

R

Grace

gdl

Octave

RL Plot

Plotter

Plot

vtk

Visit/vtk

Python + Matplotlib

PGPLOT

plplot

ParaView/vtk

Grapher

HippoDraw

Veusz

QtiPlot

Cheap < $100

$30 DataPlot

$60> Graphing calculator

$95> Profit

$39> 3D Data Visualizer Pro

$30> Graph Sketcher

$8> XYVue

$25 (for a CD package) OpenDX
also available from here

Moderate < $1000

$445 Aabel

$120 Citrin

$299 Deltagraph

$550 Igor

$495 SmileLab

$495 GraphPad Prism

$200 KaleidaGraph

$715 DataDesk

Expensive > $1000

$1900 MatLab

$1880 Mathematica

$1895 Maple

$2400 IDL

$1195 DataTank

$3750 Tecplot

$1195 JMP

$1595-$4100 Stata