Are there any generic statistical board software ?

Question

I was thinking about monitoring the evolution of a single value (nope, this is not the SO rep :-p), and I'd like to have some nice histograms about it. My needs are simple:

• daily / weekly / monthly / yearly evolution histograms;
• daily / weekly / monthly / yearly calculation for max, min and average value.

Ideally the product should be scriptable so I can feed it with the result of the script.

Something simple like: set it up, set cron (or, if it has a daemon, even better), set input, enjoy output.

If it does not exist, do you feel like you would be interested in such a tool. Because I could end up coding it eventually.

EDIT :

I am not looking for a lib or a language but an app.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if they are what you are looking for, but I would look at the R statistics packages and the various Python numerical and scientific libraries, like numpy and scipy. They are probably overkill, but they might have graphical components that you can leverage.

Answer 2

From a Java program you can create charts with JFreeChart

Answer 3

How about RRDtool?