Software Tools

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Contents 1 Software Tools Often Used in the Department 2 Software and Drivers Downloads 3 EMail Configuration 4 Virtual Machines 5 GIS and Data Visualisation Software 6 Agent Based Modeling Software 7 VPN Software 8 Reference Manager Software 9 Computer System Platforms 10 Useful Tips and Tricks 11 Data Mining Software

Software Tools Often Used in the Department

• Software Training Classes
• Mollie's Excel calculator for Confusion Matrices: Measures of Diagnostic Accuracy

Note: certain software can be purchased from the University of Utah Office of Software Licensing for a considerable cost savings.

Software and Drivers Downloads

• PC Drivers

• Mac Drivers

• Linux Drivers

EMail Configuration

• Mac Mail

Virtual Machines

• Parallels Desktop for Mac (Windows and Linux virtual machines under Mac OS/X on Intel Macs)
• VMWare Fusion for Mac (Windows and Linux virtual machines under Mac OS/X on Intel Macs)

GIS and Data Visualisation Software

This is an interesting tool (free) with a thought provoking website with content related to John Tukey:

• Why Visicube?: http://www.datamology.com/vcwhy.shtml

• Visicube: http://www.datamology.com/download.shtml

• Visicube Manual: http://www.datamology.com/doc/VisiCube%201.4%20Manual.pdf

• Visicube Knowledgebase: http://www.datamology.com/kblist.shtml

• Ask a Question about Visicube: http://www.datamology.com/report-qst.shtml

Agent Based Modeling Software

• AnyLogic (XJTEK): http://www.xjtek.com/anylogic/
• NetLogo (free): http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

VPN Software

• Cisco VPN Client: http://www.it.utah.edu/services/helpDesk/connectedhelp/vpn_faq/index.html

Reference Manager Software

• JabRef: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
• Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/

Computer System Platforms

• Computer System Platforms

Useful Tips and Tricks

• Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X

Data Mining Software

• Weka (free): http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
• ROCKIT (free, for ROC analysis): http://www-radiology.uchicago.edu/krl/roc_soft6.htm