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he chart below originally accompanied our story 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis (April 20, 2011). We're updating it as we cover additional tools, including 8 cool tools for data analysis, visualization and presentation (March 27, 2012) and Six useful JavaScript libraries for maps, charts and other data visualizations (March 6, 2013). Click through to those articles for full tool reviews.

mport your data to our survey data analysis software from all major survey programs and file formats. SurveyMonkey SurveyGizmo QuestionPro Qualtrics Survey Analytics Snap Surveys Toluna QuickSurveys Super Simple Survey SPSS (.sav) Triple-S (.xml or .sss) IBM SPSS Data Model (.mdd) Excel (.xls or .xlsx) CSV (.csv)

R resides in an interestingly large gap between the other domain-specific languages, SAS and SPSS. R has not only caught up with SPSS, but surpassed it with around 50% more job postings. MATLAB has many similarities to R so it’s interesting to see that it has only around half the job postings. Note that these are specific to analtyics and MATLAB has many engineering jobs that are not counted in this total.

SAS is still far ahead of R in analytics job postings

Figure 2a shows the number of articles found for each software package for all the years that Google Scholar can search. SPSS is by far the most dominant package, likely due to its balance between power and ease-of-use. SAS has around half as many, followed by MATLAB and R.