Mathematica - great options, easy to change fonts, save as .Tex pdf jpeg whatever - cons expensive and propriety Matlab - large data sets, great built in funct

Mathematica - great options, easy to change fonts, save as .Tex pdf jpeg whatever - cons expensive and propriety Matlab - large data sets, great built in functions - cons expensive and proprietary Python - matplotlib, seaborn Octave - free matlab Bonus: Tikz. I've made some really neat stuff in Tikz when I used to work in research.