Data Analysis tools
By drc at Tue, Feb 6 2007 4:09am |
Scott Hannahs has 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. Remember that many of the more expensive applications have free/cheap education or student versions.
Free = $0
Cheap < $100
$30DataPlot
$60> Graphing calculator
$95> Profit
$30> Graph Sketcher
$8> XYVue
$25 (for a CD package) OpenDX
also available from here
Moderate < $1000
$445 Aabel
$120 Citrin
$299 Deltagraph
$550 Igor
$495 SmileLab
$495 GraphPad Prism
$200 KaleidaGraph
$715 DataDesk
Expensive > $1000
$1900 MatLab
$1880 Mathematica
$1895 Maple
$2400 IDL
$1195 DataTank
$3750Tecplot
$1195 JMP
$1595-$4100 Stata
Comments
GDL
I haven't used this Gnu version of IDL, but I thought I'd add it to the list. I'm a huge IDL fan, and GDL claims to have "Full syntax compatibility"
http://gnudatalanguage.sourceforge.net/
It seems that Stata is missing
By the way, it is also a great data analysis tool.
JMP is also missing
JMP from SAS is a great data analysis tool, which is available for MacOS, Windows and Linux. I use it and I love it (it helps me a lot in analyzing great amounts of measurement data and design and analysis of experiments for my PhD thesis).
see http://www.jmp.com
free 30 day trial (fully functional) available
Unfortunately it's not free, but its worth the cost in my opinion and there are academic licences.
Martin
BTW, another 0$ tool and similar discussions here in the forums
there is also gretl (free, http://gretl.sourceforge.net/) which is specialised in time series analysis
BTW, there have been similar discussions about this topic here in the forums which might be interesting for someone searching for the right tool:
http://www.macresearch.org/graphing_multivariate_data
http://www.macresearch.org/sas_alternative
Martin
plplot
There is also the free plplot (plplot.sourceforge.net).
More Data Analysis Tools
I've updated the list, if i've missed anything please let me know.
Pricing of JMP
Hi, don't get me wrong, I don't want to advertise for JMP or anything like that (I just love its features).
Just as the price you listed might be way too much for some users, I want to mention that the academic version of JMP 6 I'm currently using was "only" 464 EUR and not more than $1000. There should be similar edu discounts in other countries.
Pricing
Hi,
Many of the more expensive applications have cheaper student/educational versions, but depending on the application/country/institution you may have to hunt around a little.
sure
OK, that's correct for sure and sorry: you wrote it above the list (did not see that!)
:-)
Did you consider ROOT ?
Maybe you could take a look at ROOT (http://root.cern.ch/).
Although it was develop for the High Energy Physics community I'm sure you will find useful features.
Cheers
Mac Data Analysis Tools
Although its repertoire is limited to univariate mathematical modeling and even though a Universal Binary is still in development, I would not overlook Regress+.
http://www.causascientia.org/software/Regress_plus.html
It is FREE, has about 37,000 users in 127 countries and, if it does what you need, is at least as good as alternate packages, probably better!
Michael P. McLaughlin