statistical info

rapidminer is a analytics platform

http://rapidminer.com/

H20 is machine learning software

http://0xdata.com/

knime is an analytics platform

https://www.knime.org/

plotly is a very nice visualiztion software

https://plot.ly/feed/#sob

tableau is a data visualization software.  

It is very useful forncreating graphs to be viewed online.

http://www.tableausoftware.com/

The university has a licence for SPSS, but it is only for use on campus in the computer labs.

If you are interested in learning SPSS, you can download a trial version.

http://www14.software.ibm.com/download/data/web/en_US/trialprograms/W110742E06714B29.html

There is a open source project trying to provide similar software to SPSS, it is called PSPP.

http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

Here is the link to Teradata University

http://www.teradatauniversitynetwork.com/

Teradata is commonly used with very large data.

SAS has partnered with Teradata to provide a connection of SAS Visualization with Teradata.

Here is the link to the free version of SAS.

http://www.sas.com/en_us/learn/analytics-u.html

Please note that it is nice but rather limited.  We have the full version of SAS so it is in your profession interest to use the full version and to become familiar with it.

This version of SAS runs on the mac.  If you try this please send Prof. Suess an email about your experience.

R can be downloaded from  http://www.r-project.org/

RStudio can be downloaded from  http://www.rstudio.com/

Revolution Analytics RRE can be downloaded from  http://info.revolutionanalytics.com/free-academic.html

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Additions to R

RCmdr  http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/  (nice GUI for R)

rattle  http://rattle.togaware.com/  (nice GUI for data mining with R)

rmetrics  https://www.rmetrics.org/  (R for finance)

rmetrics books  http://finance.e-bookshelf.ch/