Free (as in beer) programs

[bryangoodrich]

I'm most interested in freely available data analytic tools and resources (tutorials) to make sure I know how to use them effectively!

So to list something: Python. Enough said

[bugman]

.."free" necessarily to mean "free as in beer" (pay nothing)...]

Where does this happen? Im coming to Iowa!

[Dason]

Where does this happen? Im coming to Iowa!

Doooo it!

The "free as in beer" thing I believe originally comes from a quote of Richard Stallman which you can find here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1...osts.html?pg=6

[bryangoodrich]

Back to analytics

GeoDa -- A stand-alone executable tool that can be used for exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and spatial modeling (spatial lag and spatial error models). I'm not sure if there's an equivalent package in R to do some of these commands or if the tools are just available in the various spatial packages in R. In any case, useful tool and worth exploring for anyone considering spatial data analysis. I recommend searching for tutorials to get an idea of its functionality.

[trinker]

Pandoc; the swiss army knife of file conversions; http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

[gianmarco]

CHIC (Correspondence & HIerarchical Cluster) Analysis: standalone software designed for practitioners in the field of Correspondence Analysis and Related Methods; http://www.amarkos.gr/en/research/chic/

MYSTAT: the Free SYSTAT Statistical Analysis Product for Student Use; http://www.systat.com/MystatProducts.aspx

Agna: freeware application designed for social network analysis, sociometry and sequential analysis; http://www.oocities.org/imbenta/agna/

NetDraw: program for drawing networks; https://sites.google.com/site/netdrawsoftware/download

Mendeley: easily organize your papers, read & annotate your PDFs, collaborate in private or open groups, and securely access your research from everywhere; http://www.mendeley.com/

iSkysoft: iSkysoft Free Video Downloader for Mac lets Mac users quickly and easily download videos from YouTube; http://www.iskysoft.com/free-mac-video-downloader.html

Stellarium: free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope; http://www.stellarium.org/

[victorxstc]

Web of Trust can save your computer before visiting the malicious sites.

I use Turn off LCD pretty much in my laptop.

I used to use PC Tools Firewall Plus Free Edition before installing Avira and Web of Trust.

AntiMalware is a very good free antimalware program. In combination with Avira, it is so useful to me.

Like the vista of a mac, while needing to use Windows? Try Flyakite OSX and its siblings. Warning: it replaces a Windows library, and thus can make installing few of future programs problematic. I experienced it with GimpShop installing. But the great look pays off IMHO.

The fastest and best and the most functional and the most intuitive download manager: Free Download Manager. I don't remember, but think it is open-source too.

Tired of residual files after unistalling some programs? There are some applications to get rid of this issue, but Absolute Unistaller is one of the best ones.

Advanced System Care is one of the most handy and functional utility programs, but I personally prefer the great simplicity and performance of its older version, Advanced Windows Care 2.

Smart Defrag is much faster and MUCH more efficient than Microsoft poor built-in defrag utility. Also has interesting features, for example realtime defrag or defragging the content of a single folder and its subfolders.

[victorxstc]

A very very good site for finding hilarious free and open-source programs, which deserved a separate post: http://majorgeeks.com/

[trinker]

Alter the order of PDFs with PDF24 Creator

[bugman]

Just started using trimage for file compression. Seems pretty good.

http://trimage.org/

[lorb]

Just started using trimage for file compression. Seems pretty good.

http://trimage.org/

It indeed seems pretty good. I also like that in the Download area on the site they list my OS first (Debian)

[bugman]

It indeed seems pretty good. I also like that in the Download area on the site they list my OS first (Debian)

I'm a bit off topic here, but have you tried other distros? Maybe you could post your linux experiences in out Linux thread: http://www.talkstats.com/showthread....ighlight=linux

[bugman]

... Seems pretty good.

http://trimage.org/

Edit: Its VERY cool. has some great features and very easy to use.

[bugman]

XnView - Multi platform graphics viewer, browser and convertor.

http://www.xnview.com/en/index.html

[trinker]

Relief!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For all you LaTex people who have to work with word people. Here's a decent, free online conversion of PDF to Word...

http://www.pdftoword.com