The Vanderbilt Libraries provides access to O'Reilly for Higher Education, a multimedia collection of instruction and reference materials focused on computer programming, web development, audio-video editing tools and more. Want to learn a new skill? Check out the link below:
About R: R is an open, integrated suite of software facilities for data manipulation, calculation and graphical display. More information: What is R?
The library’s Digital Lab team provides some support for R. For more information, please visit the R lessons and resources page linked below. You can reach the DiSC team at disc@vanderbilt.edu.
In exchange for a course syllabus, any .edu academic can get any and all RStudio professional tools for free use in teaching. (See link below).
About Stata: Fast. Accurate. Easy to use. Stata is a complete, integrated software package that provides all your data science needs—data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting. More information: Why use Stata?
About SPSS: IBM® SPSS® Statistics is a powerful statistical software platform. It delivers a robust set of features that lets your organization extract actionable insights from its data. More information: Why IBM SPSS Statistics?
About NVivo: More than just a tool for organizing and managing data, NVivo offers an intuitive qualitative data analysis experience that helps you uncover deeper research insights. More information: Learn more about NVivo
About Tableau: Tableau is a powerful data visualization and analysis tool. It helps simplifying raw data into an easy-to-understand and consumable format. Data analysis is quick with Tableau and the visualizations are created in the form of publishable dashboards and worksheets.
Tableau offers a free software license to students. (See link below).
About Canva: Unlike other online graph makers, Canva isn’t complicated or time-consuming. There’s no learning curve – you’ll get a beautiful graph or diagram in minutes, turning raw data into something that’s both visual and easy to understand.
Canva is free! (See link below).