Step 1: Get PowerShell Core

• Do not use Windows PowerShell
• PowerShell Core can run on Windows, Linux, and MacOS
• Download from https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell

Step 2: Build an empty .NET app using ScottPlot

• dotnet new console
• dotnet add package scottplot
• dotnet build

Step 3: Create a PowerShell script

• Enter the builder folder containing ScottPlot.dll
• Create myScript.ps1 and copy the following contents into it
• Run the script using PowerShell Core (not Windows PowerShell)

Add-Type -Path .\ScottPlot.dll
[double[]] $dataX = @( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 )
[double[]] $dataY = @( 1, 4, 9, 16, 25 )
$plt = [ScottPlot.Plot]::new(400, 300)
[Void] $plt.AddScatter($dataX, $dataY)
[Void] $plt.SaveFig("$pwd\quickstart.png")

PowerShell Interactive Notebooks

Doug Finke prepared a YouTube video and GitHub repository demonstrating how to create data visualizations with PowerShell and ScottPlot in the a Polyglot Interactive Notebook.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL0JRukCU4k
• https://github.com/dfinke/PowerShellScottPlot