The built-in analysis operations include column/row statistics, (de)convolution, FFT and FFT-based filters.

Note windows support in-place evaluation of mathematical expressions or an optional scripting interface to Python.

SciDAVis was founded by Tilman Benkert and Knut Franke in 2007 as a fork of QtiPlot, after disagreements arose with Ion Vasilief, the founder and main developer of the project.

[3] Franke has stated that the topics of disagreement included "design goals, management of community resources and the right way to make money from a free software project".

[3] In 2008, developers of SciDAVis and LabPlot "found their project goals to be very similar" and "decided to start a close cooperation" with the aim of merging their code into a common backend, while maintaining "two frontends, one with full KDE4 integration (called LabPlot 2.x) and one with no KDE dependencies (pure Qt so to say) for easier cross-platform use (called SciDAVis)".