Software & Tools
The page contains a list of software and tools either available on the machines in the Research Data Service, or tools available online with the level of support available for each.


Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro
Support level: advanced, also available in the DHC
Categories: OCR / publication

ArcGIS Desktop
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, visualization
Site License Information & student accounts: CIESIN GIS Service Center

ArcGIS Earth
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site

ArcGIS Online
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, visualization, web tool
Training resources: Vendor site
Site License Information & student accounts: CIESIN GIS Service Center

ArcGIS Pro
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site

Bloomberg
Support Level: basic
Categories: quantitative, qualitative, programming
Training resources: Bloomberg Help Guide

CARTO
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, visualization, web tool
Training resources: Vendor site
Signup for a CU account (valid uni required): registration

Carto.js
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, programming, visualization, web tool
Training resources: Vendor site

Cytoscape
Support level: none
Categories: network analysis, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site

D3
Support level: basic
Categories: programming, web tool, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site



ESRI Story Maps
Support Level: basic
Categories: spatial, visualization, web tool
Training Resource: Vendor site
Site License Information & student accounts: CIESIN GIS Service Center

Excel
Support level: advanced
Categories: quantitative, programming, data cleaning






Google Fusion Tables
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, web tool, network analysis, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site, GIS on the Web (LinkedIn Learning)



JMP Pro (SAS)
Support level: basic
Categories: quantitative, spatial, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site, Resources in CLIO


Leaflet
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, programming, visualization, web tool
Training resources: Vendor site

MapBox
Support level: none
Categories: spatial, programming, web tool, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site




Neatline
Support level: basic
Categories: qualitative, spatial, web tool, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site

Omeka
Support level: available in the DHC
Categories: OCR / publication
Training resources: Vendor site




Pajek
Support level: none
Categories: network analysis, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site

Palladio
Support level: none
Categories: qualitative, web tool, network analysis, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site


Python (Anaconda) 2 & 3
Support level: basic
Categories: quantitative, qualitative, spatial, programming, data cleaning, network analysis


R / RStudio
Support level: advanced
Categories: quantitative, qualitative, spatial, programing, cleaning, network analysis, visualization



SPSS Amos
Support level: none
Categories: quantitative
Training resources



Tableau Public
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, network analysis, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site

VOSviewer
Support level: none
Categories: network analysis, visualization
Training resources: Vendor site

XTools Pro
Support level: advanced
Categories: spatial, data transformation
Training resources