Data Desk
Data Desk is a computer program for data analysis, graphics, and statistics.
| Data Desk | |
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| Developer | Data Description Inc. |
| Stable release | 6.2 (Win), 6.2 (Mac)
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| Operating system | Windows & Mac |
| Type | Statistical analysis |
| License | proprietary |
| Website | [1] |
History
Data Desk was developed in 1985 by Dr. Paul F. Velleman, a statistics professor at Cornell University who had studied Exploratory Data Analysis with John Tukey. Data Desk was released in 1986 for the Macintosh. It provided most standard statistical methods accessed through its own desktop interface. Data Desk pioneered linked graphic displays including a 3-D rotating plot, and graphical slider control of parameters.
In 1997, Data Desk was released for Windows, and included a General Linear Model (GLM), multivariate statistics, and nonlinear curve fitting.
DD/XL is an add-in for Microsoft Excel that adds Data Desk Functionality dirrectly to the Spreadsheet
Reviews
Macworld reviewed DD/XL in December 1 2000 with a 4.5 out of 5[1].
Infoworld reviewed Data Desk 6.0 and said "DataDesk Plus is by far the best Windows package for in-depth data exploration. Also, DataDesk Plus is easily the best Windows statistics package for teaching statistics" [2]
Macworld reviewed Data Desk in October 1997, and gave it 9.1 out of 10, and a 5 star rating.