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Dear Human Being,
Last year was the “Year of Statistics” — so what did you do about it?
Most likely cried yourself to sleep in a corner, or spent your days struggling with statistical software designed by evil elves to make your mind implode.
Today, the power of statistics seems to be reserved for experts with advanced degrees and employers with deep pockets. And that’s a shame, because data plus statistics equals knowledge, and as the saying goes, knowledge is power. That power should belong to everyone, not just a privileged few.
Well, I have some good news. I’ve designed a new kind of statistics program. It’s designed for you. That’s right… you! Because it doesn’t matter whether you’re a seasoned statistician, or are just getting started with data analysis. I know that you want a program that’s easy to use, that produces research-quality output, and that gives you advanced insights instantly.
The program is called Wizard, and to be perfectly honest with you, I think it’s the most exciting desktop software since the spreadsheet. Wizard is built from the ground up to make data analysis… well, pleasant. Approachable. Easy on the eyes. You won’t find any command line or programming language in Wizard. To summarize a variable… just click on it. You’ll instantly see a picture like this:
Wizard knows what you want based on context. And Wizard runs appropriate statistical tests to give you the answers you’re looking for, even if you don’t know exactly the right question to ask.
So if you’re new to statistical computing, you’ll find that Wizard is the absolute best choice for your first statistics program. Bar-none, hands-down, no question about it. Wizard has a gentle learning curve, and mistakes are difficult to make with Wizard’s intuitive, informative interface.
If you’re a business user, you’ll love Wizard’s ability to export PDF graphics and interactive Excel spreadsheets. Wizard will help you present and explain statistical findings, and assist colleagues in making better business decisions using Wizard’s powerful modeling techniques.
Finally, professional researchers will find that Wizard Pro is an excellent companion to SAS, Stata, and SPSS, helping you to do more research in less time. All versions of Wizard have advanced analytic capabilities, including:
- Multivariate modeling
- Multi-core computation
- Sophisticated regression options
- No artifical limits on the size of your data
If you ever need more than Wizard can offer, the Pro version lets you copy-paste generated commands from Wizard into your favorite stats program and take it from there. But you may never need to: Wizard handles millions of rows of data with ease.
I could go on about how great Wizard is, but nothing explains Wizard better than the fun and excitement of using Wizard for the first time. So go ahead: download the free trial and start experiencing the joy of Wizard for yourself.
The statistical revolution is finally here… and lucky for you, it’s easy to use!
Sincerely,
Evan Miller
Wizard creator
Wizard creator
PS- Wizard is only available for Mac, but if you’re reading this on a PC, consider this: for the price of high-end statistics software, you can buy Wizard and still have enough money left over for a top-of-the-line MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. Amazing, isn’t it?
Many years ago Scott Hannahs compiled a fabulous list of the tools for Data Analysis available for Mac OS X for the SciTech mailing list and I thought it would be useful to spread the word, since then many people have contacted me and the list has grown. Remember that many of the more expensive applications have free/cheap academic or student versions
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Application | Price | Link | Updated |
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R 3.4.4 | $0 | http://www.r-project.org/ | 10/07/2014 |
Generic Mapping Tools | $0 | http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ | 20/02/2007 |
vvidget | $0 | Available on Mac AppStore | 10/01/2014 |
Grace | $0 | http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Grace | 20/02/2007 |
Ctioga2 | $0 | http://ctioga2.rubyforge.org/ | 12/02/2011 |
gnuplot | $0 | http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/ | 08/02/2007 |
Qgfe | $0 | http://freecode.com/projects/qgfe | 08/02/2007 |
gdl | $0 | http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/ | 08/02/2007 |
Octave | $0 | http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/octave | 10/01/2014 |
RL Plot | $0 | http://rlplot.sourceforge.net/ | 08/02/2007 |
Plot | $9.99 | Available on Mac AppStore/ | 08/02/2007 |
Regress+ 2.7.1 | $0 | http://www.causascientia.org/software/Regress_plus.html | 30/10/2013 |
vtk | $0 | http://www.vtk.org/ | 08/02/2007 |
Visit/vtk | $0 | http://www.llnl.gov/visit/ | 08/02/2007 |
Python+Matplotlib | $0 | http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ | 08/02/2007 |
PGPLOT | $0 | http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/ | 08/02/2007 |
plplot | $0 | http://plplot.sourceforge.net/ | 10/01/2014 |
ParaView/vtk | $0 | http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Index.html | 08/02/2007 |
HippoDraw | $0 | http://www.slac.stanford.edu/grp/ek/hippodraw/ | 08/02/2007 |
Venuz | $0 | http://home.gna.org/veusz/ | 08/07/2008 |
QtiPlot | $50 | http://soft.proindependent.com/qtiplot.html | 10/01/2014 |
DataGraph 3.2 | $90 | Available on Mac AppStore | 29/05/2014 |
Graphing Calculator | $60 | http://www.pacifict.com// | 08/02/2007 |
pro Fit 7 | $95 | http://www.quansoft.com/ | 19/07/2015 |
3D Data Visualizer Pro | $39 | https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/22626/3d-data-visualizer-pro | 08/02/2007 |
XYVue | $8 | http://freecode.com/projects/xyvue | 08/02/2007 |
OpenDX | $25 | http://www.vizsolutions.com/ | 08/02/2007 |
CISM_DX | $0 | http://www.bu.edu/cism/cismdx/ | 08/02/2007 |
Aabel | $575 | http://www.gigawiz.com/ | 15/12/2008 |
Citrin | $120 | http://www.gigawiz.com/ | 08/02/2007 |
Deltagraph 6.0 | $299 | http://www.redrocksw.com/ | 28/08/2010 |
Igor | $85-595 | http://www.wavemetrics.com/ | 10/01/2014 |
SmileLab | $495 | http://www.satimage.fr/software/ | 08/02/2007 |
GraphPad Prism | $595 | http://www.graphpad.com/prism/Prism.htm | 08/02/2007 |
KalidaGraph | $200 | http://www.synergy.com/ | 08/09/2013 |
DataDesk 7 | $895 | http://www.datadesk.com/ | 29/07/2014 |
MatLab | $1900 | http://www.mathworks.com/ | 08/10/2008 |
Mathematica 9.0 | $200-2495 | http://www.wolfram.com/ | 29/11/2012 |
IDL | $2400 | http://www.exelisvis.com/ProductsServices/IDL.aspx | 10/01/2014 |
DataTank | $1195 | http://www.visualdatatools.com/ | 08/02/2007 |
Tecplot | $3750 | http://www.tecplot.com/ | 08/11/2011 |
Tecplot Focus | $1500 | http://www.tecplot.com/products/focus/focus_main.htm | 20/02/2007 |
Jmp 9 | $1195 | http://www.jmp.com/ | 08/02/2007 |
Stata 11 | $2745 | http://www.stata.com/ | 27/07/2009 |
Maple | $2275 | http://www.maplesoft.com/ | 20/02/2007 |
MultiSpec | $0 | http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~biehl/MultiSpec/description.html | 30/04/2008 |
TNTLite | $0 | http://www.microimages.com | 30/04/2008 |
Statsplus:mac | $208 | http://www.analystsoft.com/en/products/statplusmac/ | 12/04/2008 |
EnSight | $0-$10000 | http://www.ceisoftware.com// | 19/07/2011 |
SARchitect | $?? | http://www.strandls.com/sarchitect/index.html | 10/01/2014 |
Knime | $0 | http://www.knime.org// | 1/10/2010 |
KnowledgeMiner | $300 | http://www.knowledgeminer.com/aboutkm.htm/ | 20/09/2009 |
KnowledgeMiner (yX) for Excel | $1500 | http://www.knowledgeminer.com/aboutyx.htm/ | 16/11/2010 |
Vortex | ?? | Chemically intelligent Data Viewer | 11/12/2009 |
xlstat | ?? | http://www.xlstat.com/ | 16/06/2010 |
friedEgg Touch | $14.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 10/01/2-14 |
Tulip 3.4.1 | $0 | http://tulip.labri.fr/TulipDrupal/?q=node/781 | 14/01/2011 |
IBM SPSS | $6000-$37000 | http://www.spss.com/ | 14/01/2011 |
SPICE | $0 | http://exon.niaid.nih.gov/spice/ | 14/01/2011 |
DAQ Plot | $19.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 24/11/2011 |
kSpectra | $189 | Available on Mac AppStore | 28/01/2011 |
Cytoscape | $0 | http://www.cytoscape.org/ | 28/01/2011 |
Gephi | $0 | http://gephi.org/ | 28/01/2011 |
RapidMiner | $0 paid support | http://rapid-i.com/ | 27/05/2011 |
SciDAVis | $0 | http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/ | 27/05/2011 |
LabPlot | $0 | http://scidavis.sourceforge.net/ | 27/05/2011 |
mjoGraph | $0 | http://www.ochiailab.dnj.ynu.ac.jp/mjograph/ | 07/08/2012 |
fityk | $0 paid support | http://fityk.nieto.pl/ | 27/05/2011 |
mathStatica | $170 | http://www.mathstatica.com/ | 02/09/2016 |
InfiniteGraph | $0- >$5000 | http://www.objectivity.com/infinitegraph | 14/11/2011 |
Solo | $695- $2195 | http://www.eigenvector.com/software/solo.htm | 17/12/2011 |
Graph | $0 | Available on Mac AppStore | 17/01/2012 |
MagicPlot | $149 | http://magicplot.com/features.php | 03/03/2012 |
JTreeView | $0 | http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtreeview/ | 05/03/2012 |
CheS-Mapper | $0 | http://macinchem.org/reviews/ChesMapper/chesmapper_review.php | 10/05/2012 |
PublishPlot | $9.99 | http://www.geditcom.com/PublishPlot.html | 31/08/2012 |
Wizard Pro | $199.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 28/04/2014 |
Wizard | $79.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 28/04/2014 |
Topcat | $0 | http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/topcat/ | 20/1/2012 |
Chartsmith | $129 | http://www.blacksmith.com/products/index.html | 3/4/2013 |
aiSee | $511 | http://www.absint.com/aisee/index.htm | 3/6/2013 |
Insights | $80-2000 | http://www.knowledgeminer.eu/about.html | 17/7/2013 |
Graph Builder | $19.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 19/11/2013 |
Graph-R | $4.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 27/11/2013 |
ClickPlot | $0 | Available on Mac AppStore | 10/01/2014 |
Graph Plot | $9.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 03/03/2015 |
Publish Plot | $9.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 10/01/2014 |
Easy Contour | $29.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 10/01/2014 |
Thunderplot | $9.99 | Available on Mac AppStore | 10/01/2014 |
GAUSS | $?? | GAUSS Mathematical and Statistical System | 16/01/2014 |
KST | $0 | KST | 28/03/2014 |
Panoply | $0 | Panoply netCDF, HDF and GRIB Data Viewer | 08/06/2014 |
DataWarrior | $0 | Chemically intelligent Data Viewer | 01/07/2014 |
Sage | $0 | Python front-end to NumPy, SciPy, R, FLINT etc. | 30/08/2014 |
Caleydo | $0 | Open source visual analysis framework targeted at biomolecular data | 29/10/2014 |
Tableau | $999-1999 | Desktop data analysis | 29/10/2014 |
Plot2 | $0 | Available on MacAppStore | 04/12/2014 |
PAST | $0 | PAST download | 11/04/2016 |
Cytoscape | $0 | Visualise networks | 17/05/2016 |
Tomviz | $0 | Visualizing electron tomography data | 14/11/2017 |
Rodeo | $0 | A Python IDE for Data Scientists | 26/03/2018 |
Whilst the tools above provide a wealth of alternatives for exploring and analysing data one other request often comes up, if you have a hard copy of a graph how do you get the data into one of the above packages. I know of two tools that help in this task.
GraphClick is a graph digitizer software which allows to automatically retrieve the original (x,y)-data from the image of a scanned graph or from a QuickTime movie. It is a native Mac OS X application and an Apple design award winner.
DataThief III is a Java application to extract (reverse engineer) data points from a graph.Typically, you scan a graph from a publication, load it into DataThief, and save the resulting coordinates, so you can use them in calculations or graphs that include your own data.
There are also web-based tools WebPlotDigitizer is a semi-automated tool for reverse engineering images of data visualizations to extract the underlying numerical data.
If you have ever been in the situation where supporting information is provided in PDF format then you will appreciate Tabula. Tabula allows you to extract that data into a CSV or Microsoft Excel spreadsheet using a simple, easy-to-use interface.
On the other hand if you just want to create structured data table (fields) and fill them with random proper content (records) with a single click then DataCreator is what you might want to look at, I've written a review DataCreator.Along similar lines Camelot is described as a PDF Table Extraction for Humans, Camelot is a Python library that makes it easy to extract tables from PDF files.Camelot only works with text-based PDFs and not scanned documents. Camelot comes with a command-line interface. It can be installed using conda
Data Extractor allows to extract data from files and collect them ready to be exported for later use Data is collected in records with custom specified fields inside an internal table. Data can be exported at any time.Data extractor can parse thousands and thousands of file in few seconds and collect all the data inside these files using simple instructions on how to recognise data, how to extract them and where to put these data inside Data Extractor tables, ready to be exported and transferred to a database.
If you just want to have a quick browse though the datafile then MagicPlot Viewer offers a quick and useful means to do that.
Datamate Numeric Processor allows you to Normalize, standardize, scale, and manage missing data and data outliers quickly and accurately.You might also want to look at Data Wrangler for an online tool for cleaning up data, also Visual JSON a simple and very easy to use JSON visulization tool.
Table Tool is an Open Source, very simple CSV editor that handles different delimiters, character encoding, decimal separator or quote style.
csvkit is a suite of utilities written in Python for converting to and working with files in csv format. csvkit is designed to be used a replacement for most of Python’s csv module but can also be called from the commandline.
DB-Text is a general purpose tool for editing delimited text files. It can automatically recognize the used format analyzing the content inside. It can accept data with mixed use of quotas and provides tools to copy in CSV (comma separated),TSV (tab separated) or HTML format of selected rows in the clipboard, with a simple click.
Similarly csvfix is a commandline tool for editing csv delimited text files.
This paper is well worth reading, Ten Simple Rules for Better FiguresNicolas P. Rougier , Michael Droettboom, Philip E. Bourne DOI
Compilations of data analysis tools, reference management software, GPU-accelerated applicationsand spectroscopy software
Last updated 23 October 2018