Data Desk is a fast, easy-to-use data analysis package that has been helping people understand their data since 1986. The program provides interactive tools for analysis and display based on the concepts and philosophy of Exploratory Data Analysis. Data Desk implements many traditional statistics techniques suitable for data from planned experiments and surveys. However, the program's true strength is its powerful tools for data exploration, visualization and mining. All Data Desk's plots and tables are linked together so that points selected in one display highlight in all other displays. Select bars in a bar chart or histogram, slices of a pie chart, rows, columns, or cells of a table, or any points in a scatterplot, rotating plot, dotplot, or boxplot, and the selected points highlight in all plots. Such consistency reveals relationships among several variables, identifies clusters and subgroups and helps you to catch errors and outliers.
Version 7.0.0 is a paid upgrade from 6.3 for $149, or from 6.0-6.2 for $249.
- Offers an interface that is easier to learn for beginners. But you won't have to learn new commands or methods--the traditional methods work as they always have.
- Crafted to work more comfortably on large screens and to take advantage of faster processors.
- Advanced Preference feature is the option to preserve a full record of your results--even if you modify a plot or table in place. That makes your Results folder a "lab notebook" with a time-stamped history of your analysis process.
- Will read and open your current Data Desk files--including all your saved results.
- New Preferences give you a choice of desktop colors, plot/graph background and a choice of interface sizes.
- New drag-and-drop interface.
- Deals quickly and smoothly with millions of cases.
- New parallel-coordinates plots.
- Identify a point on a plot with the query tool and Special>Web Search Query (or press command-shift-?) and DD7 will search the Internet for the identifying text you just displayed.
