[jxy]

It's fun to play with code and try out new ideas in such a rich interactive environment. When you want to get the work done in production scenario, the shortcomings of unable to use version control and the overhead of interactive environment just kill it.

What works is that you get a subset of your data and try to develop some code to process it and generate a handful of graphs. You can then save the code in its true text form and edit with your favorite editor, and run it on your real data.