Research Guides: Interrogate Your Data: Data Analysis: Tools

Software

ArcGIS
This links to information on installing the educational edition through the campus site license. ArcGIS is the most commonly used software in GIS. It allows for data analysis and visualization.
Excel
Enhanced by intelligence for experts and novices
Excel learns your patterns, organizing your data to save you time. Easily create spreadsheets from templates or on your own and use modern formulas to perform calculations.
Hadoop
The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver high-availability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-available service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone to failures.
NVidia
HIGH-PERFORMANCE DATA ANALYTICS
Iterate on large datasets, deploy models more frequently, and lower total cost of ownership.
Python
Python is a very lean, easy to learn programming language. A comprehensive standard library and thousands of additional libraries in the Python Package Index provide high-quality solutions for data wrangling, data analysis, and development.
R Studio
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.
SAS
SAS/STAT includes exact techniques for small data sets, high-performance statistical modeling tools for large data tasks and modern methods for analyzing data with missing values.
SPSS
IBM® SPSS® Statistics is a powerful statistical software platform. It offers a user-friendly interface and a robust set of features that lets your organization quickly extract actionable insights from your data.
Tableau Public
A fast, intuitive tools for data analysis and visualization

AtlasTi
All-in-one Research Software. Discover insights for your research projects. QDA and mixed methods. UX research. Term paper, thesis, dissertation.
NVivo
NVivo helps you discover more from your qualitative and mixed methods data. Uncover richer insights and produce clearly articulated, defensible findings backed by rigorous evidence.
Python
Python is a very lean, easy to learn programming language. A comprehensive standard library and thousands of additional libraries in the Python Package Index provide high-quality solutions for data wrangling, data analysis, and development.
QCoder
Enables analysis of interview transcripts, observation notes, memos, and other sources. Supports the work of social scientists, historians, humanists, and other researchers who use qualitative methods. Addresses the unique challenges faced in analyzing qualitative data analysis. Provides opportunities for researchers who otherwise might not develop software to build software development skills.
R Studio
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.
Taguette
Free qualitative research tool where text can be imported and highlighted for important content.
Voyant
Online text analysis tool that assesses properties such as word frequency.

Constelate
Users can create a ready-to-analyze dataset with point-and-click ease from over 30 million documents, including primary and secondary texts relevant to every discipline and perfect for learning text analytics or conducting original research. Ability to find patterns in your dataset with ready-made visualizations, or conduct more sophisticated text mining in our Analytics Lab using Jupyter notebooks configured for a range of text analytics methods.
Hathi Trust Research Center
The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) enables computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus. It is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with HathiTrust, to help meet the technical challenges researchers face when dealing with massive amounts of digital text.
Mallet
MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.
Python
Python is a very lean, easy to learn programming language. A comprehensive standard library and thousands of additional libraries in the Python Package Index provide high-quality solutions for data wrangling, data analysis, and development.
R Studio
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.
TAPoR3
TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval.
Voyant
Online text analysis tool that assesses properties such as word frequency.
WordSeer
WordSeer is a text analysis environment that combines visualization, information retrieval, sensemaking and natural language processing to make the contents of text navigable, accessible, and useful.

The Research Studio
by Jennifer Moore Last Updated Feb 21, 2024 721 views this year

The research studio offers specialize analysis software for WashU affiliates. It can be accessed in person and virtually, and is supported by the Data Services team.