Monday, September 18, 2017

Open alternatives to proprietary software (I): PSPP, statistic analysis

One reason that many users argue for not to leave the proprietary systems and migrate to GNU/Linux is that the application that they usually use does not exist in the free systems ... or so they believe.
In most case there are some alternative free software that do the same function as their private one, but you know the name of the equivalent software, pages like alterativeTo will help you to find the right software.


I start this series talking about PSPP, an stadistics analysis software, than can replace the well-known SPSS with advantages:
  • SPSS great compatibily.
  • Multi-system: works in GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac.
  • You can try it without instalations using this CD-live.
  • You can export to Excel, opendocument (LibreOffice Calc), gnumeric, ascii and several database managers.
  • No problems with number of licenses because is free sofware, save money and avoid problems with backpacks or license servers when network is offline.
  • You can also export to ASCII, PDF, PostScript or HTML.
  • You can get several types of stadistical graphics.
This is a good oportunity to start get rid of that drug called proprietary software.
 
See wikipedia and the official page for more details.

There is also a lot of courses, books and video-tutorials.
Artículo original en castellano

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