Free (as in beer) programs

[trinker]

Meeting scheduling with Doodle is nice.

 

[trinker]

A bunch of freebies from text analysis to animation and music development: http://toychest.pbworks.com/w/page/52411578/FrontPage

 

[trinker]

Here's a way to get those dvds you own into mp4 format: http://handbrake.fr/

 

[trinker]

Sign up for end educational account at github. Grad students: @github will give you 5 free private repos! sign up with your Uni address http://bit.ly/hPUut4 DOES NOT require .edu!

 

[Dason]

Sign up for end educational account at github. Grad students: @github will give you 5 free private repos! sign up with your Uni address http://bit.ly/hPUut4 DOES NOT require .edu!

Very nice - thanks for the heads up.

 

[trinker]

I think teachers can do it too.

 

[trinker]

Very easy connect between spread sheets and SVG.

RAW is a free tool that makes a number of graphics. Works easily with R too.

Here's the R function to quickly cut and paste data:

write.excel <- function(x,row.names=FALSE,col.names=TRUE,...) {
  write.table(x, "clipboard", sep="\t", row.names=row.names, col.names=col.names, ...)
}
 
write.excel(dat)

 

[vinux]

Qlikview is as good as tableau (as per this https://www.trustradius.com/compare-products/tableau/qlikview).

PC version of Qlikviewis free (it is not the trail version).
http://www.qlikview.com/us/explore/experience/free-download

 

[bryangoodrich]

Nice. I'll have to check that out at home, but I need a commercial license at work, and the rating does put Tableau a little higher (and I've been impressed). Tableau is pretty well priced from my experience, but this thing does come with a lot more license variety.

 

[bryangoodrich]

Since I don't post here often, I'm pretty sure I didn't mention Gephi, but I just did at TIL. Check it out there. Definitely an analytic and visualization tool to have on your belt!!

http://www.talkstats.com/showthread.php/22597-Today-I-Learned-____?p=141800&viewfull=1#post141800

 

[trinker]

PDFcrack: http://www.pdfcrack.com/

For unlocking your secure PDFs

 

[bryangoodrich]

I prefer just crack, Trinker

Since I was totally blown away with it, I'll add WinPython here. I use Windows at work, and even on Linux, getting a Python package manager to work right (especially for Python3.x) or IPython with the QT Console and Notebook just isn't intuitive, straight-forward, or entirely functional! Yet, WinPython, at least for Windows, was such a breeze! It's about 10-20x larger in file size (pushing 300 MB if I recall correctly), but it's worth it.

http://code.google.com/p/winpython/​

It gives you

1. IPython + QT Console + Notebook
2. TortoiseHG (I guess it's like git?)
3. QT Designer and a bunch of other things (Make custom Python GUIs in a Window builder! Nice!!)
4. Spyder (and Spyder Lite) for IDE
5. Python 3.2 64bit with all the major scientific Python modules (NumPy, Pandas, scilearn-kit, matplotlib, etc.)
6. Portability! You don't need admin rights. It's entirely portable, which is good for me. Well, was. I can get adminity (TM) whenever I want now.
7. WinPython Control Panel - That's right, it has its own CP for managing packages (just DL the tarballs/exe I guess?) and you can register your portable version so it's like a full install.

Then if you look in its directory tree, it has a bunch of other stuff. I'm pretty sure I saw SciTE in there (which I sometimes use for stuff). It's a great Windows package of just scientific coding awesometude. Get yours today!