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Need to analyze data, develop algorithms, and create parametric models? Here are our free software recommendation for researchers. Check out Octave and @FreeCAD. Let us know other #free software you use for research work. Read more here: https://puri.sm/posts/the-ultimate-guide-to-free-software/
@purism for research purposes, I use Python (with Geany or vim as IDE) and ocasionnaly Jupyter notebooks, TeXmaker for writing articles in LaTeX, and Zotero for bibliography.
I also heard good things about @kde's LabPlot but have never used it.