Data Archiving Tools
- Colectica for Microsoft ExcelA tool to document your spreadsheet data using the open standard for data documentation
- Collectica DesignerColectica Designer allows documenting data collection, survey specification, and dataset descriptions.
- DMPToolOnline data management planning tool to help guide researchers through the process of creating a data management plan.
- Nesstar/ExcelNesstar is a software system for publishing data on the Web.
- Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)An international standard for describing data from the social, behavioral, and economic sciences
Statistical Analysis Softwares
R is free to download and use, and all the codes are open. At the same time, users can easily add their own programs (once they are familiar with statistics and programming).
SAS is a powerful statistical-analysis and data-management system for complex data sets. It is especially strong in analysis of variance (ANOVA), the general linear model, and their extensions.
SPSS performs statistical analysis on quantitative data. The graphical user interface makes statistics analysis easier, including most complex models.
Stata is a command-based statistical package that offers a lot flexibility for data analysis. The program language keeps a simple structure, so is easy to learn, allowing users to focus on the statistical modeling.
Excel is good is for the simplest descriptive statistics, or for more than a very few columns. It is easy to use for basic data analysis, and is much more convenient for data entry and shape manipulating.
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis package. It helps researchers organize and analyze complex non-numerical or unstructured data, both text and multimedia. The software allows users to classify, sort, and arrange thousands of pieces of information. It also accommodates a wide range of research methods. It supports documents in many languages.
Quantum GIS (QGIS) is open source GIS software, available for both Windows and Mac OS. This software is free and comes with surprisingly powerful and useful tools.
- Statistical Data Mining TutorialsTutorial slides by Andrew Moore
- Big Data Analytics ResourcesFrom the Keck Institute for Space Science, California Institute of Technology.
Books
Qualitative Data Analysis with Nvivo by Call Number: H61.3 .B39 2007ISBN: 9781412921404Date: 2007Patricia Bazeley's book is accessible, easy-to-understand and very practical. Using worked examples throughout she guides the reader on how best to incorporate the latest version of NVivo into every stage of the research process.
