Use of Open Source Software Enhancing Curriculum | Developing Opportunities

1. Use of Open Source Software
Enhancing Curriculum | Developing Opportunities
Prepared by Dr. Maurice Dawson

2. Topics
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Book Chapter
OSS Repository
Desktop OS
Productivity Suite
Virtualization
Cloud Software
Enterprise Architecture Tools
Statistical Tools
Visualization
Business Intelligence
Cyber Tools
Development - Technology Entreprenuership

3. Why Open Source Software & Virtualization?

4. SourceForge

5. Ubuntu (.deb) or Fedora (.rpm)

6. LibreOffice

7. Virtualization

8. Open Source Cloud Software

9. Dia Diagram Editor

10. Essential Project

11. EA - Reporting

12. EA - Business Modelling

13. EA - High Level Supply Chain

14. EA - Low Level Supply Chain

15. SOFA Statistics
SOFA is a user-friendly statistics, analysis, & reporting program. It is
free, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and
beautiful output.
SOFA lets you display results in an attractive format ready to share.
And SOFA will help you learn as you go. http://sourceforge.
net/projects/sofastatistics/

16. GNU PSPP
PSPP is a program for statistical analysis of sampled data. It is a Free
replacement for the proprietary program SPSS, and appears very similar to
it with a few exceptions.
he most important of these exceptions are, that there are no “time bombs”;
your copy of PSPP will not “expire” or deliberately stop working in the future.
Neither are there any artificial limits on the number of cases or variables
which you can use. There are no additional packages to purchase in order
to get “advanced” functions; all functionality that PSPP currently supports is
in the core package.
PSPP can perform descriptive statistics, T-tests, anova, linear and logistic
regression, cluster analysis, factor analysis, non-parametric tests and more.
Its backend is designed to perform its analyses as fast as possible,
regardless of the size of the input data. You can use PSPP with its graphical
interface or the more traditional syntax commands.
A brief list of some of the features of PSPP follows:
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Supports over 1 billion cases.
Supports over 1 billion variables.
Syntax and data files are compatible with those of SPSS.
Choice of terminal or graphical user interface.
Choice of text, postscript, pdf, opendocument or html output formats.
Inter-operates with Gnumeric, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.Org and other free
software.
Easy data import from spreadsheets, text files and database sources.
User interface supports all character sets and has been translated to multiple
languages (details).
Fast statistical procedures, even on very large data sets.
No license fees.
No expiration period.
No unethical “end user license agreements”.
Fully indexed user manual.
Free Software; licensed under GPLv3 or later.
Cross platform; Runs on many different computers and many different
operating systems (GNU or GNU/Linux are the prefered platforms, but we have
had many reports that it runs well on other systems too).
PSPP is particularly aimed at statisticians, social scientists and students requiring fast convenient
analysis of sampled data.
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

17. R Programming Language
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R is a free software environment for statistical
computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a
wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS.
To download R, please choose your preferred CRAN
mirror.
View item at http://www.r-project.org/

18. R Studio
RStudio is a free and open source integrated
development environment for R. You can run
it on your desktop (Windows, Mac, or Linux)
or even over the web using RStudio Server.
Download at http://www.rstudio.com/ide/

19. RKWard
RKWard is an easy to use and easily extensible IDE/GUI for R.It
aims to combine the power of the R-language with the ease of use
of commercial statistics tools.
RKWard's features include:
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Spreadsheet-like data editor
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Syntax highlighting, code folding and code completion
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Data import (e.g. SPSS, Stata and CSV)
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Plot preview and browsable history
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R package management
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Workspace browser
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GUI dialogs for all kinds of statistics and plots
Its features can be extended by plugins, and it's all free software.
Download at http://sourceforge.
net/apps/mediawiki/rkward/index.php?
title=Download_RKWard

20. Data Visualization

21. Predictive Analytics & Data Mining

22. Open Source Business Intelligence

23. Kali Linux

24. Android Development

25. Kickstarter

26. GCW Zero

27. OUYA

28. Keynote Speech on OSS