PV-WAVE is an array based programming language used to build and deploy Visual Data Analysis applications. These applications let users manipulate and visualize simple to extremely large datasets to detect and display patterns, trends, anomalies and other vital information that would otherwise be overlooked in their data. PV-WAVE delivers powerful image and signal processing, data import and export, 3D surface, plot, histogram, contour, animation, color editor and a database table display. And, unlike other products, PV-WAVE Advantage includes a sophisticated set of analysis routines based on the industry-standard IMSL™ Libraries for reliable and precise numerical analysis.