# Data Analysis and Visualization Environment
## DAVE
## Version 2.x

Obtaining and Installing DAVE

Overview of DAVE

Description of DAVE Software

Getting Started

Data Reduction

Loading and Saving Datasets

Introduction to Visualization

Data Manipulation and Analysis Operations

Exporting Graphics

DAVE Sessions

Planning and other Miscellaneous Tools

PDF documentation for self-contained program modules

If you reduced, analyzed or visualized your data using DAVE, please acknowledge its use by including the following reference:
[1] DAVE: A comprehensive software suite for the reduction, visualization, and analysis of low energy neutron spectroscopic data , R.T. Azuah, L.R. Kneller, Y. Qiu, P.L.W. Tregenna-Piggott, C.M. Brown, J.R.D. Copley, and R.M. Dimeo, J. Res. Natl. Inst. Stan. Technol. 114, 341 (2009).

## Disclaimer

This software was developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology at the NIST Center for Neutron Research by employees of the Federal Government in the course of their official duties. Pursuant to title 17 section 105* of the United States Code this software is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. The DAVE software package is an experimental neutron scattering data reduction, visualization, and analysis system. NIST assumes no responsibility whatsoever for its use, and makes no guarantees, expressed or implied, about its quality, reliability, or any other characteristic. The use of certain trade names or commercial products does not imply any endorsement of a particular product, nor does it imply that the named product is necessarily the best product for the stated purpose. We would appreciate acknowledgment if the software is used.

*Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works

Copyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government, but the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it by assignment, bequest, or otherwise.

## Acknowledgments

The following developers have made significant contributions to DAVE: Richard Azuah, John Copley, Rob Dimeo, Alan Munter, Larry Kneller, Yiming Qiu, Craig Brown, Paul Kienzle and Philip Tregenna-Piggott. Additional open source utilities written by David Fanning, Ronn Kling, Mark Piper, Michael D. Galloy, and Craig Markwardt have been incorporated into some of the DAVE programs as well. This work is based upon activities supported by the National Science Foundation under Agreement No. DMR-0454672.