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Availability: Faculty/Staff Part of: Google Apps Comparable: OpenOffice, Excel Google Sheets is a basic cloud-based spreadsheet editor that can be accessed directly through any web browser. Spreadsheets are automatically saved to Google’s servers (Google Drive), and a revision history is automatically kept so past edits may be viewed (although this only works for adjacent revisions, and there … Read more
Availability: Windows Labs | Faculty/Staff | Download Part of: Microsoft Office Suite Comparable: OpenOffice, Google Sheets Microsoft Excel is the spreadsheet application in the Microsoft Office Suite. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms. Excel also facilitates … Read more
Availability: Labs | Download Comparable: Excel Origin is a proprietary computer program for interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. It is produced by OriginLab Corporation, and runs on Microsoft Windows. It has inspired several platform-independent open-source clones like QtiPlot or SciDAVis. Graphing support in Origin includes various 2D/3D plot types. Data analyses in Origin include statistics, signal processing, curve … Read more