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What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects?
What are some valuable Statistical Analysis open source projects available right now?
Edit: as pointed out by Sharpie, valuable could mean helping you get things done faster or more cheaply.
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Is the R language reliable for the field of economics?
I am a graduate student in economics who recently converted to R from other very well-known statistical packages (I was using SPSS mainly). My little problem at the moment is that I am the only R user ...
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Does Julia have any hope of sticking in the statistical community?
I recently read a post from R-Bloggers, that linked to this blog post from John Myles White about a new language called Julia. Julia takes advantage of a just-in-time compiler that gives it wicked ...
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Excel as a statistics workbench
It seems that lots of people (including me) like to do exploratory data analysis in Excel. Some limitations, such as the number of rows allowed in a spreadsheet, are a pain but in most cases don't ...
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Software needed to scrape data from graph
Anybody have any experience with software (preferably free, preferably open source) that will take an image of data plotted on cartesian coordinates (a standard, everyday plot) and extract the ...
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OpenBugs vs. JAGS
I am about to try out a BUGS style environment for estimating Bayesian models. Are there any important advantages to consider in choosing between OpenBugs or JAGS? Is one likely to replace the other ...
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Statistics and data mining software tools for dealing with large datasets
Currently I have to analyze approximately 20M records and build prediction models. So far I have tried out Statistica, SPSS, RapidMiner and R. Among these Statistica seems to be most suitable to deal ...
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Software for easy-yet-robust data exploration
In my attempts to fight spreadsheet mayhem, I am often evangelical in pushing for more robust tools such as true statistics software (R, Stata, and the like). Recently, I was challenged on this view ...
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C++ libraries for statistical computing
I've got a particular MCMC algorithm which I would like to port to C/C++. Much of the expensive computation is in C already via Cython, but I want to have the whole sampler written in a compiled ...
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Visualization software for clustering
I want to cluster ~22000 points. Many clustering algorithms work better with higher quality initial guesses. What tools exist that can give me a good idea of the rough shape of the data?
I do want to ...
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Ideas for “lab notebook” software?
So this is an odd fit, though really I think it's an odd fit for any site, so I thought I'd try it here, among my data-crunching brethren.
I came to epidemiology and biostatistics from biology, and ...
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Do some of you use Google Docs spreadsheet to conduct and share your statistical work with others?
I know most of you probably feel that Google Docs is still a primitive tool. It is no Matlab or R and not even Excel. Yet, I am baffled at the power of this web based software that just uses the ...
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Why do Excel and WolframAlpha give different values for skewness
for the following 3 values 222,1122,45444
WolframAlpha gives 0.706
Excel, using =SKEW(222,1122,45444) gives 1.729
What explains the difference?
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Testing statistical software
What techniques/approaches are useful in testing statistical software? I'm particularly interested in programs that do parametric estimation using maximum likelihood.
Comparing results to those from ...
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Software (or webapps) for teaching kids statistics or probability?
I would like (in the distant future) to teach statistics to kids. For that matter, I'd be happy to know of software (obviously I am tending towards FOSS), or webapps, that are helpful in explaining ...
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Data anonymization software
Is anyone aware of good data anonymization software? Or perhaps a package for R that does data anonymization? Obviously not expecting uncrackable anonymization - just want to make it difficult.
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How to transition from using statistical software to understanding mathematical equations in journal articles?
Context:
I'm a Psychology PhD student. As with many psychology PhD students, I know how to perform various statistical analyses using statistical software, up to techniques such as PCA, ...
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What programming language do you recommend to prototype a machine learning problem?
Currently working in Octave, but due to the poor documentation progress is very slow.
What language is easy to learn and use, and well documented to solve machine learning problems? I am looking to ...
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Does anyone know any good open source software for visualizing data from database?
Recently I came across Tableau and tried to visualize the data from database and csv file. The user iterface enables the user to visualize time and spatial data and create plots in an instant. Such ...
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Recommended visualization libraries for standalone applications
Which visualization libraries (plots, graphs, ...) would you suggest to use in a standalone application (Linux, .Net, Windows, whatever). Reasonable performance would be nice as well.
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Tools for modeling financial time series
What modern tools (Windows-based) do you suggest for modeling financial time series?
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What are some good references/advice for learning Emacs Speaks Statistics (with R)?
I have been using R for several years, but I have always used a GUI like Tinn-R, JGR, and most recently R-Studio.
Though I like R-Studio's interface, I feel that for longer programs with few/no ...
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Ruby as a statistics workbench
This is also a question that relates very much to Python as a statistics workbench and excel as a statistics workbench. I know there is a huge discussion about Ruby versus Python but this is not the ...
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Free treemapping software
Is there any free desktop software for treemapping? Every one I've found appears to have a commercial license. Many Eyes is free and has treemapping features but what I'm really looking for is ...
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What research tool to use when researching a project?
I am currently working towards a Statistics BSc and am frequently having to organise my research.
I am currently using a mixture of a mediawiki, and a bibliography browser plugin, to make an archive ...
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What are some good (ideally free) tools to give laymen access to basic statistical techniques?
I have been a contract worker for two different companies now, which means I show up at a place for 3-6 months and blow their minds with my awesomeness, but then, to everyone's disappointment, I ...
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Semi-supervised learning, active learning and deep learning for classification
Final edit with all resources updated:
For a project, I am applying machine learning algorithms for classification.
Challenge:
Quite limited labeled data and much more unlabeled data.
Goals:
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Project management for remote collaboration in prediction
Are there any tools for remote collaboration in prediction or machine learning settings?
I am looking for a computing environment that includes appropriate source control, keeps track of how ...
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Is it possible to do data analysis in Open Office Calc?
I have recently come across the mircosoft data analysis tool add-on, and I was wondering if there was something comparable that can be used with OpenOffice?
However, if there is nothing for ...
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Which the best programming language to handle time series?
I work with CSV files containing 10-minute data of temperatures of some years of a station, and I usually perform some calculations: mean, average, correlations between two stations, correlations in ...
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Problem with character vectors and linear regression in R
Quick question.
I want to perform a linear regression that looks like this:
lm(y ~ x1 + x2 + x3 + x4 +x5, mydata)
This works fine if I manually write out this ...
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Is there a software package designed to automatically check the assumptions of various statistical tests?
I have been having a hard time deciding which statistical test to choose for a dataset. The more a read on the web, the more I get confused since frequently there are different opinions when it comes ...
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Software for learning Bayesian belief networks
I am looking for an easy to use stand alone software that is able to construct Bayesian belief networks out of data. The software should (of course ;-) be free.
Can anybody recommend something? Thank ...
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What are speed differences beetwen ML implementations in different languages?
I am trying to write my own ML library. For speed reasons I started out writing things in C using BLAS, but then I learned that NumPy and Theano also use BLAS. I am wondering if there are huge speed ...
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Modeling of real-time streaming data?
I am interested in tools/techniques that can be used for analysis of streaming data in "real-time"*, where latency is an issue. The most common example of this is probably price data from a financial ...
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Software for ML/NLP/DM laboratory
suppose you might buy some software to be used in a ML/NLP/DM laboratory. What software package would you ask for? Let's say: MATLAB (with some toolboxes), SPSS, and what else?
I know that there is a ...
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Unit testing sampling methods
I'm writing a bit of code that makes pretty heavy use of sampling (eg, MCMC, Particle Filters, etc), and I would really like to test it to make sure that it's doing what I think it is before claiming ...
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Which statistical software is suitable for teaching an undergraduate introductory course of statistics in social sciences?
I am looking for a statistical software package which I can use in an introductory course of statistics for a social science study programme. The students have no prior knowledge of statistics and no ...
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Common standards for data import file formats for statistics software?
I'm looking for common standards (file formats) for how most statistics software packages import data.
The reason is that I'm going to make an export function for a simulation software package.
The ...
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What is a good tool and format for representing and communicating the design content of a survey?
Are there any decent tools for writing/designing questionnaires before providing to programmers? Currently Microsoft Word is being used and tracking changes and keeping it standardized has become a ...
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Feature naming conventions
I'm curious to know what others tend to see as a suitable naming convention for model features or variables, particularly as they relate to their use and reference in software applications.
For ...
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Software for learning statistical quality control
I'm taking a course in Statistical Quality Control as an elective in my masters program. We're using Montgomery's Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, 6th Edition.
The book uses minitab ...
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What is a good software for data collection à la CDC's Epi Info?
I am a medical student working on a project which requires massive data that are collected manually through data entry operators. Although I am using traditional tool used by epidemiologists, Epi ...
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How to visualize a GraphML multitree?
I have a multitree that represents the lineages of all the fishgroups in a breeding program. It's stored as a double adjacency table with fish_id, ...
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Advice on a good production level SPC (statistical process control) package?
I am tasked with bringing up an SPC system within our moderately sized, but very technical, manufacturing company.
It might be against the rules of this forum, or maybe bad form, to name specific ...
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Help with deploying a model
The two main packages I use at work are Palisade Risk and SPSS Clementine - they are both quite old versions and I've been supplementing the ability to analyze properly at work with more modern ...
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What software allows non-parametric repeated-measures multi-way Anova?
A previous user asked this question specifically for R. I'd like to know what, if any, other software can do this.
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Program yourself or use data mining toolkit?
I'm quite comfortable using Python and additional ML/Visualization packages for ML and data mining. How does the free data mining software RapidMinder, KNIME, etc. compare to this approach and does it ...
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Most useful Stata ado-files? [closed]
Stata is unusual among commercial
statistics packages in allowing
user-written commands, distributed as
so called ado-files, to be
straightforwardly downloaded from the
internet which are ...
