101 Guide to a Piper Plot: Its Purpose, Benefits, Use Cases, and How to Create & Recreate One With Ease When you're building a specialized graph like a piper plot, two challenges typically stand in your way. First, there's the learning curve of creating the [...]
The Latest Features You Can Enjoy In Grapher Beta (August 2025 Edition) At Golden Software, we’re always looking for ways to make your work easier, faster, and more impactful. That’s why we continually refine and improve our products—not just behind closed doors, but with your [...]
6 Specialized Graphs You Can Create and Recreate With Ease Sometimes, you need to create a specialized graph—but the process for doing so is rarely seamless if it’s your first time creating one with a particular software. Usually, you have to stumble through some sort [...]
Walking on a 3D Model: How to Give Stakeholders a Better Understanding of Your Data Data visualization is a powerful tool—but sometimes, even a well-designed 3D model isn’t quite enough to get your point across. Stakeholders may nod along in meetings, but if the project [...]
Tired of Repetitive Graphing Tasks? Grapher Can Automate Them. If you’re a geoscientist who works with a constant inflow of new data, you already know how repetitive graphing tasks can be. Whether you're formatting multiple plots the same way, importing similar datasets again and again, [...]
Build a Great Map In Minutes: The Key to Greater Efficiency A well-made map can communicate complex data at a glance—but when you’re short on time, getting that map built quickly is just as important as getting it right. You might have all the data [...]
Need to Create a Graph Quickly? A Wizard is at Your Service. When it comes to data visualization, quality matters—but so does speed. You don’t always have the luxury of spending hours formatting axes, styling legends, or configuring datasets. Whether you're racing toward a looming [...]
Add High-Quality Context Without the Hassle: Google Maps is Now at Your Fingertips Maps and models are powerful on their own—but sometimes, they need a little extra context to tell the full story. Whether you’re showing stakeholders where data was collected, comparing surface features, or [...]
Need Better Software? Here’s How to Build a Case Your Boss Will Support A new software tool can be a game-changer for your workflow—but getting the green light from your boss to use it? That’s the real challenge. Maybe you’ve tested out Grapher or Surfer [...]
How to Convince Decision-Makers in Environmental Science to Spend More Money on Analysis If you own a geoscience firm, chances are you didn’t get into this line of work just for the paycheck. You’re probably here because you care about the work—you enjoy solving difficult [...]