Computer Software for Research
and Analysis
As promised in Commissioning
Consultancy, this page offers updated information about
computer software packages for data analysis in social research.
We will update this every 3-6 months, depending on our workloads
and other commitments. Please note that this is not intended
to be an exhaustive list. Inclusion of software on this
list does not represent any kind of endorsement. Equally,
omission of software from this list does not represent any
form of criticism.
If you know of specific data analysis software, which would
be helpful to social researchers, that we have omitted
but could include, please email details to info@weresearchit.co.uk.
Thank you.
Quantitative Data Analysis
http://www.spss.com/
The official SPSS website, with product information and
free demonstration versions of software for Windows and
Macintosh computers.
http://www.stata.com/
Statistical analysis software
for Windows, Macintosh and Unix computers. This site also
includes a very comprehensive list of links to other statistical
analysis software providers at http://www.stata.com/links/stat_software.html
http://www.minitab.com/
Statistical analysis software for Windows computers.
Questionnaire Data Analysis
http://www.statpac.com/
Questionnaire design and analysis software for Windows,
with free demonstration versions.
http://www.snapsurveys.com/
Snap survey software for Windows, covering questionnaire
design and analysis, with optional extra module for Web
and email surveys.
http://www.sphinxdevelopment.co.uk/Products.htm
Sphinx Survey Primo, Plus and Lexica for Windows. These
software products have recently been updated and now have
optional extra modules for multimedia and Internet-based
surveys.
http://www.surveysystem.com/
This Windows software also has a range of optional extras.
http://www.senecio.com/askanywhere.html
This cross-platform software works on Windows, Macintosh,
Unix and Linux computers. The website has a range of downloadable
demonstration versions and tutorials. Qualitative Data
Analysis
http://www.qsr.com.au/
Publishers of NVivo and N6 (the latest version of NUDIST)
for Windows, also N4 Classic for Macintosh computers.
http://www.banxia.com/demain.html
Decision Explorer software for Windows.
http://www.atlasti.de/
Atlas.ti Software for Windows, a program offering analysis
of textual, graphical, audio and video data.
Observational Data Analysis
http://www.noldus.com/products/index.html?observer/index
The Observer software for Windows.
http://www.skware.com/id18.htm
BEST (Behavior Evaluation Strategies
and Taxonomies) for Windows.
http://www.aviation.uiuc.edu/institute/acadprog/epjp/MacShapa.html
MacShapa for Macintosh computers.
Freeware
There is some free software
available for quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
Most of the freeware we know of is for Windows; if you know
of any data analysis freeware for other platforms, please
let us know at info@weresearchit.co.uk.
Here are some examples:
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=2070&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1034774523
UNESCO software for Windows, WinIDAMS is designed for
the validation, manipulation and statistical analysis
of numerical data.
http://www.decisionanalyst.com/download.asp
STATSTM is free statistical analysis software for Windows,
designed for market researchers, which may also be of
use to some social researchers.
http://www.transana.org/
Transana is designed for the transcription and analysis
of audio and video data. It is for Windows, although the
site indicates that they are also trying to develop it
for Macintosh computers.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/ez-text.htm
CDC EZ-text is Windows software for analysing semi-structured
interview data.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/answr.htm
ANSWR (ANalysis Software for Word-based Records) is for
Windows and describes itself as a software system for
coordinating and conducting large-scale, team-based analysis
projects that integrate qualitative and quantitative techniques.
http://www.son.wisc.edu/resources/simonds/martin/martin.htm
Martin is Windows software
for textual analysis. It is quite old and will only run
on Windows 95 or earlier, it won’t
work on Windows NT.
