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This thread has been totally jacked. I don't think excel or matlab is what the original poster is looking for.
Last thursday I was running a bunch of soil sample direct shear strength tests. The apparatus, recording 6 variables ran to a windows based pc and directly imported into excel. It did take a few minutes to set up the initial spreadsheet hotcells and formulae, but the resulting graphs were automatic and exactly what I needed.
Incidently, this was for school, but I've used a nearly identical system in industry, where I needed to prepare site investigation reports. In both cases was plenty fast, powerful enough, and looked just fine.
I have no doubt that matlab works great for many people. I understand why people don't like excel. But it works very well for me.
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