Origin 2020 Feature Highlights

"Origin has been used intensively at INSEP for almost 20 years. It is an all-in-one software that provides everything needed for handling tasks such as signal processing, data manipulation, stats, graphing and reports. Amongst the various improvements and new features in Origin 2020, I was particularly thrilled by pop-up mini-toolbars, allowing super easy and super fast graph customizing and polishing."

Antoine Couturier PhD, Research Engineer
INSEP (Paris, France)

Edit and customize graph elements quickly using Mini Toolbars.

These toolbars are sensitive to the type of graph and object selected. The buttons in the pop-up provide access to common customization options, so you can perform quick changes to your graph without opening complex dialogs.

Customize group or individual data plots, axes scales and styles, font settings for all text on the page, layer properties, page properties and more, using these convenient pop-up toolbars. You can even copy a data plot from one graph and paste it to another graph!

Importing large text files has been significantly improved in this latest version.

Import speed has been improved by a factor of 10 or more as compared to previous versions of Origin, and compared to Excel 2016. This was done by making full use of the processor's multi-core architecture.

Scatter plots of large datasets are drawn much faster in this new version. This includes the default XY scatter plot as well as colormapped scatter plots in which a third column is used to assign scatter point color.

In addition, this new version also introduces two new plot types which produce more significant gains in plotting speed:

• Density Dots Plot
• Color Dots Plot

View sections below for details on these new plot types.

Density Dots is a new plot type introduced in Origin 2020 to create scatter plots from very large datasets on the order of millions of data points.

The data is presented as a scatter plot where the points are colormapped to the data density. The density is computed using a fast algorithm that utilizes 2D binned approximation and 2D interpolation.

Creating this plot from 2 million XY data points takes just 2 to 3 seconds!
See table in section above.

Several enhancements have been made to database import in this version:

• Directly import images stored inside the database as pictures in worksheet cells
• Protect imported data from editing, to ensure data integrity
• Clear imported data when saving projects to reduce file size
• Improved Ease of Use and performance

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The following new graph types have also been added in version 2020:

• Color Dots
• Kite Diagram
• Population Pyramid
• Before-After Plot

Population density of 37,000 US Cities plotted using the new *Color Dots* plot. The Import Shapefile App was used to overlay state boundaries.

Copy and paste data plots from one graph layer to another.

The data plot will be copied along with the custom formatting. The plot can even be pasted into a new layer as when adding a second Y axis.

Copy formatted worksheet cells or tables from Origin's report sheets, as HTML. Then paste to other applications such as Microsoft Word and edit further. Worksheet cells can also be copied as EMF.

Similar to Excel, you can now use the "$" syntax to create absolute references in Cell Formulas in Origin worksheets cells.

Absolute references can be used for row or column or both row and column.

Formulas can be extended horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

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