Behavioural Insights

Free and open-source statistical software based on R for computation, but with a graphical user interface similar to SPSS Statistics.

A graphical program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam that will be familiar to users of SPSS.

The full version of Tableau that's available for free download, with only one caveat: Everything you create with it is public, which means you'll automatically be making it available on the web via Tableau's visualization gallery

user-friendly, open-source web tool that you can use to create basic interactive charts.

Great tool for creating interactive, visually rich timelines without having to write code.

With Chartbuilder’s intuitive web-based application, creating charts and diagrams is a matter of copy and paste.

Developed at the Humanities + Design lab at Stanford University, Palladio is a browser-based visualization tool built to handle immense amounts of historical data with relative ease. Palladio is, however, more specialized, focusing on specific case studies and research questions.

PivotTable.js is a free web pivot table that allows users to explore data using an easy drag-and-drop format.

Powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

Extract data tables from PDFs.

Estimate and extract data points from a raster image of a graph.

Allows users to convert PDF document to MS Word file, scanned images to editable text formats and extract text from PDF files.

Transform your spreadsheet, presumably encumbered with some kind of geographical data, into a functioning heat map with just one click.

Make a pin map from a list of multiple locations, use addresses, postcodes, or coordinates.

Open, socially-sourced map data.