Nittany Data Labs
Free Applications
- GitHub Student Developer Pack
https://education.github.com/pack/ - Google Colab
https://colab.research.google.com/
- PyCharm Edu
https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm-edu/ - RStudio Desktop
https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/ - Tableau Community
https://www.tableau.com/community/academic/
Penn State Software
Available to all Penn State students:
Statistical Software
https://softwarerequest.psu.edu/
- Mathematica, MatLab, Minitab, SPSS
WebApps
https://webapps.psu.edu/
- ArcGIS (mapping/GIS)
- JMP Pro (statistical)
- Mathematica (mathematics/modeling/analysis)
- MATLAB (mathematics/modeling/analysis)
- Office (word processing, presentations, spreadsheets)
- SAS (statistical)
- SolidWorks (engineering/simulation/design/modeling)
Related Course Notes
We encourage you to explore the online notes created for our World Campus statistics courses (as well as courses in other departments). Some courses that you may find useful:
- STAT 200: Elementary Statistics
- STAT 480/481: SAS programming
- STAT 500: Applied Statistics
- STAT 501: Regression Methods
- STAT 502: ANOVA and Design of Experiments
- STAT 504: Analysis of Discrete Data
- STAT 505: Applied Multivariate Analysis
- STAT 508: Applied Data Mining
- STAT 510: Applied Time Series Analysis
University Libraries
The University Libraries’ Department of Research Informatics and Publishing enhances the technology-driven teaching and research capacity of the Penn State community. Their services are based on the tenets of openness, innovation and technology, collaboration, and supporting the entire research workflow.
- Data Analytics and Visualization
- Power BI for Data Visualization
- Tableau Overview
- Other Learning Resources
- Workshops
Geospatial and Mapping Applications
- SimplyAnalytics
- PolicyMap
- Data-Planet Statistical Datasets
- East View Geospatial LandScan Global Archive
- Social Explorer
Related research guides:
Resources for finding external data
Penn State University Libraries has a repository of Open Access Data sources and a guide on Statistics (finding numbers) to help get you started.
Additional Resources
Government Data Resources
Under the OPEN Government Data Act, which is Title II of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, government data is required to be made available in open, machine-readable formats, while continuing to ensure privacy and security.