We will make use of a variety of analytical software in this course, all of it freely available, meaning that you can install it and use it on your personal laptop or the classroom computers.
- Spreadsheets
- LibreOffice Calc (download) – used by textbook; not installed on classroom computers, Excel will work similarly.
- Google Sheets – free to use, but not open source; will work similarly to Calc or Excel.
- DB Browser (download) – A SQLite data viewer; many others are available.
- QGIS (download) – Open source Geographic Information Systems software.
- R (download) – statistical programming language.
- RStudio Desktop (download) – IDE for working with R.