Positron Alternatives

Positron is described as 'A free, next-generation data science IDE built by Posit PBC. An extensible, polyglot tool for writing code and exploring data. A familiar environment for reproducible authoring and publishing' and is a IDE in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Positron for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Self-Hosted apps. The best Positron alternative is Microsoft Visual Studio. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Microsoft Visual Studio or Jupyter. Other great apps like Positron are RStudio, Spyder, PSPP and JASP.

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  1. gretl icon
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    Is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language that can import SPSS data files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  2. STATISTICA icon
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    STATISTICA is a tried and true analytics platform with more than two decades of history in delivering successful business results for our customers, a global user base of more than 600,000 users.

    39 STATISTICA alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
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  3. Number Analytics is an web based statistical software for academics and market research supporting various types of data (SPSS, Excel, CSV, STATA, Minitab, SAS) and platforms (iOS, Android, and Web).

    27 Number Analytics alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
    • iPad
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  4. ReactiveDoc icon
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    Create Interactive Documents with Plain Text.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  5. Tinn-R icon
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    Tinn-R, the R code editor Tinn stands for the recursive acronym 'Tinn is not Notepad'. It is initially written as a small ASCII file editor primarily intended as a better replacement for the default Notepad.exe program distributed with Windows. With versions, it grew to a.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  6. Statwing icon
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    Statwing was built by and for analysts, so you can clean data, explore relationships, and create charts in minutes instead of hours. Simply upload your spreadsheet or dataset, then select the relationships you want to explore.

    42 Statwing alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  7. WinBUGS icon
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    WinBUGS is statistical software for Bayesian analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. It is based on the BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling). It runs under Microsoft Windows, though it can also be run on Linux using Wine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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  8. Revolution R icon
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    Revolution Analytics provide commercial support and software for the open source R - the world's most powerful statistics software.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  9. Displayr icon
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    Displayr is online data science and data analytics software. It was created so smart people could do their own data science: explore, model, visualize and report. One app for everything. Easy for novices, powerful for experts.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
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  10. esProc icon
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    esProc is a practical tool for complex data calculation and analysis.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
    • Linux
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  11. SHAZAM is a comprehensive computer program for econometricians, statisticians, biometricians, sociometricians, psychometricians, politicometricians and others who use statistical techniques.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  12. StatsDirect icon
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    Very cheap software (you pay for a three year licence) and very easy to use, as it is based on a spreadsheet. Indeed, it is possible to copy and paste data between Excel and StatsDirect. Also, for those who are not well-versed in statistics, there is an inexpensive book by Cole...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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