SOFA Statistics
SOFA is a statistics, analysis, and reporting program with an emphasis on ease of use, learning as you go, and beautiful output. SOFA can connect directly to your database and lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share or put in a spreadÂsheet. SOFA will help you learn as you go, whether you are a student, business analyst, or researcher.
| Tags | Statistics Analysis Reporting |
|---|---|
| Licenses | AGPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Linux Windows |
| Implementation | Python wxWidgets MySQL SQLite MS Access MS SQL Server postgresql |
| Translations | English Croatian Spanish Breton Galician |
Last announcement
SOFA wins People's Choice Award 10 Nov 2012
SOFA won the 2012 People's Choice Award in the NZ Open Source Awards - thanks to everyone who voted in support. And SOFA was also a finalist for th...
Recent releases
- 06 Apr 2013 10:04
Release Notes: 95% confidence intervals were added to ANOVA and t-tests. You Ccn now sort by category labels in clustered bar charts, line charts, area charts, and box plots. Area charts can be sorted by count/mean/sum. The series and category are now displayed in tooltips e.g. Italy, 20-29 for clustered bar charts, multi-series line charts, and box plots. Statistics output footnotes were improved. Borders on bar-type charts are now optional. Chi square clustered bar charts can cope with higher default limits for number of values. Importing field names with more than 90 characters is now prohibited at the point of import.
- 28 Jan 2013 21:58
Release Notes: This release can back up SOFA data, reports, and variable and project details via an extension plug-in.
- 10 Jan 2013 06:59
Release Notes: Sum was added as an option for charting e.g. a line chart showing total income per month by product. Matplotlib scatterplots now have optimal min and max settings calculated for their x-axis. A footnote was added to Wilcoxon output explaining that different statistics packages may report the test statistic differently. Miscellaneous fixes were made to chart layout including left margin offset. It is now easier to add new variable definition files from within the dialog for choosing them. Recode column labels and help content were modified to reduce confusion about which columns to enter range information into.
- 04 Nov 2012 20:16
Release Notes: This release adds Mode as an option to Row Stats report tables. Line and area charts can show major labels only as an option. Pie charts have option to display count and percent (not just in the tooltips as at present). Histograms use consistent bins when charted by a second variable. Better placement of y-axis title when wide labels. Pie charts keep consistent colors even if sorted by count rather than value or label. Better support for setting up report folders.
- 20 Sep 2012 08:36
Release Notes: Importing from XSLX is now supported. Normality analyses can be included in reports, saved as output, etc. Support for CUBRID databases was added. CUBRID is an open source relational database highly optimized for Web applications.
Recent comments
SOFA Statistics is easy to use and a very pleasant experience, and I've quickly found it's simply the easiest way to access and query all sorts of databases. Once the planned graphical/charting enhancements are added, I would expect SOFA will take off quickly in terms of popularity and fandom.
I think this has potential to be a revolutionary product in several ways. There are no other products quite like SOFA, and it represents a breakthrough in making statistics accessible to everyone. It's easy enough to be used by the business analyst who doesn't need SPSS, SAS or other systems -- or who just doesn't feel like spending thousands of dollars on a piece of desktop software.
As such, it has potential to bring the benefits of statistics to a whole new population of business intelligence and academic users. The trend that SOFA Statistics may, then, subsequently unleash will likely eventually force IBM and others to make competitive repositionings of enterprise statistics applications such as SPSS.
Grant is a very responsive project manager. Sofa looks very promising from my point of view and I'm waiting for next release to use all its features.
If you are migrating from commercial statistics software like SPSS, SAS or even R, Sofa statistics is a great bet. Not only does it have an intuitive GUI, it is light on system resources and produces neat output in HTML/CSS unlike any other software I have come across. In addition, suggestions and bugs are rapidly addressed by the developer.
This project is really promising. The interface lets you choose the right statistical test and and tables are also easy to make. Some tests and features are not implemented yet, but as soon as these things are implemented statistics will be easy for everyone.
Easy to use, connects to a wide range of databases and works on both Linux and Windows. Straightforward installation, and a simple, elegant design.
HTML tabular data is quick and easy to produce, and generated quicky, even from large data sets. Helpful warnings to stop you running stupid queries.
Data can be exported into spreadsheets.
Basic statistical and summary functions available now, and more expected later.
Highly recommended. The easiest way to get well-presented data from an existing dataset.
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