Data Services

SPSS

• • • SPSS is installed on all student workstations.
    • SPSS is a powerful program, used to analyze 'raw' microdata files in plain text (.TXT) or Comma Separated Variable (.CSV) formats.
    • It is the most commonly used statistical analysis software in the Social Sciences, especially in Psychology.

• An open source alternative to SPSS is PSPP

 Beyond 20/20 (B2020) 

• • • Beyond 20/20 software is installed on all student workstations.
    • If you are using your own computer, you can download a PC-only version for free
    • Many of Statistics Canada's files are in Beyond 20/20 (.IVT) format. 
    • B2020 is a software program which allows users to 'slice-and-dice' Statcan tables to a much greater degree than is possible with the interface on the Statcan website

The following resources are not installed on KPU workstations, but are freely-available for use on your own computer:

PSPP: Open source alternative to SPSS.

R : A free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Social Media Research Toolkit 

• "an overview of some of the many open access tools available for the study and analysis of social media and online communities." 
• from Ryerson's Social Media Lab

StatPages

• List of freely available statistical analysis software
• Also includes advice on selecting appropriate statistical tests and software

Open Refine

• powerful free tool for "working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming it from one format into another, extending it with web services, and linking it to [other] databases."
• Formerly called Google Refine