{"id":361,"date":"2020-05-22T13:06:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T13:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/?p=361"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:18:13","slug":"data-analysis-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/2020\/05\/22\/data-analysis-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Data analysis software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Campus IT has made available a <a href=\"https:\/\/stellenbosch.sharepoint.com\/sites\/SoftwareHUB\/Shared%20Documents\/Forms\/AllItems.aspx\">Software Hub<\/a> where you will find all the software available under the University&#8217;s site licenses? It&#8217;s available on a public Sharepoint site, where you can download the software and see How-to-guides. It consists mostly of data analysis software such as Mathematica, SAS, SPSS, Statistica and Matlab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1492\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2020\/05\/Software-hub.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is also important to be aware of <strong>free data analysis software. <\/strong>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<h5>Data cleaning<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2020\/05\/Data_Analysis-e1590152447258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-365 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/libraryresearchnews\/files\/2020\/05\/Data_Analysis-580x363.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/openrefine.org\/\">OpenRefine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trifacta.com\/products\/wrangler\/\">Trifacta Wrangler<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Statistical\u00a0analysis<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-project.org\/about.html\">R<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rstudio.com\/\">RStudio<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Qualitative analysis<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dedoose.com\/\">Dedoose<\/a> (Free for first month, thereafter you only pay a minimal amount in the months that you actually use the tool)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Data visualisation applications and tools<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/en-us\/s\/\">Tableau Public<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/powerbi.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\">Microsoft Power\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/powerbi.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\">BI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/rawgraphs.io\/\">RAWGraphs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Social and other network analysis<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gephi.org\/\">Gephi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that Campus IT has made available a Software Hub where you will find all the software available under the University&#8217;s site licenses? 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