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Statistical & Data Science Software
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).
R for Data Science by Learn how to use R to turn raw data into insight, knowledge, and understanding. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience, R for Data Science is designed to get you doing data science as quickly as possible.
RStudio for R Statistical Computing Cookbook by Over 50 practical and useful recipes to help you perform data analysis with R by unleashing every native RStudio feature.
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
Data Visualization
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).
- Tableau for StudentsRegister using your Vanderbilt (vanderbilt.edu) email address.
- Tableau TrainingVideo training for various Tableau platforms and tasks.
- Udacity: Data Visualization in TableauFree course. Covers how to apply design principles, human perception, color theory, and effective storytelling with data.
Practical Tableau by ISBN: 9781491977316Whether you have some experience with Tableau software or are just getting started, this manual goes beyond the basics to help you build compelling, interactive data visualization applications. Author Ryan Sleeper, one of the world's most qualified Tableau consultants, complements his web posts and instructional videos with this guide to give you a firm understanding of how to use Tableau to find valuable insights in data.
Tableau Dashboard Cookbook by ISBN: 9781782177906This is a Cookbook containing an extensive series of practical task-based recipes to help you get the most out of using a Tableau dashboard.This book is ideal for you if you are already familiar with Tableau and want to learn how to create an invaluable tool for your business by building your own dashboard.
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).
