If you are in analytics

[loskadoodle]

What software do you use? I need to start evaluating some. Any suggestions or opinions?

[Balki.Bartokomous]

What are you analyzing?

[AAM2012]

I use excel and pivot tables. Not sure if that's the answer you were looking for.

[Pilsy]

Tableau

[protozoa]

SAS, R

[just]

Yeah, we use industry specific analytic software. You'll get better answers if we know more.

[babsbunny]

Oct 2, 2015 19:50:30 GMT -5 Pilsy said:

Tableau

I heard of Tableau this week too. Oracle Crystal reports was something used in the past.

My main problem is people using Excel when they should be looking into more advanced tools.

[Deleted]

Excel, oracle, and SAS.

[marathon55]

So the main tools I use are SAS and a little R for any hard core analysis or query of data from relational databases. If I'm doing mixed models, factor analysis, segmentation, the. I just use SAS.

For simple tables or visual plots I will use excel.

I would argue if your just using excel or a BI tool, you are likely not really doing analytics.

[buppy]

SPSS, Python

[y4m]

My industry seems to have moved to R

[moopoint17]

We're switching over to home grown solutions but we're mainly in R.

[marathon55]

Y4m - what industry do you work in? I'm in pharma and we are slowly shifting to more R..

[insominac]

R users - how did you learn to use the program? Did you learn in school or on your own? Any books or websites that you found particularly helpful?

We use SPSS but my boss wants to switch to R because it's free and makes better charts...

protozoa y4m moopoint17 marathon55