Documentation & Resources

ATLAS Open Labs

ATLAS provides access to the statistical & GIS software we support in our open labs.

Purchasing Statistics and GIS software

The campus webstore sells software to university faculty, staff, and students for use on their own office or home computers. See the webstore site for details. Installation support is available from either ATLAS or CITES depending on circumstances, see Departmental Computing Support.

ArcGIS v9.1 (including ArcView and ArcInfo)

ArcGIS is a desktop and feature based geographic information system (GIS) software. This program allows a user to create and display professional level maps, query, summarize, and organize data geographically.

MapViewer v6.0

MapViewer is an easy-to-use GIS program for making only thematic maps. It allows the novice user to link data values to a particular map location in one of a dozen map types, and to add a spatial dimension to the analysis of data beyond standard qualitative or quantitative analysis.

SPSS v14.02

SPSS is a general statistical software program that is a good choice for a beginner due to its user friendly GUI environment. SPSS is typically used in the social sciences.

SAS v9.1

SAS is a general statistical software program that has a steeper learning curve than SPSS, but offers more data manipulation procedures. SAS is typically run using a command language.

STATA v8.0

STATA is a statistical software program that has fewer data management capabilities than SPSS and SAS, but has some specialized statistical procedures that other programs do not have.