Poll: Which tool(s) do you use the most?

meghna123Contributor

Published 2013-10-26T05:30:00.000+05:30Updated 2024-12-24T05:30:00.000+05:30

Key takeaways

The poll gathered 403 responses over a 42-day period, highlighting user preferences for analytics tools.
Excel emerged as the most utilised tool for analytics and visualisation among respondents.
SAS remains the top choice for statistical analysis, closely followed by R, which is gaining popularity.
SPSS has fallen to fifth place since being acquired by IBM, indicating a decline in its usage.
Visualisation tools like Tableau and Qlikview have low penetration, potentially due to their high costs.

5 min

FollowPreferred Source Google News WhatsApp Telegram

We ran the poll from 15^th Sep, 2013 to 26^th Oct, 2013 and received 403 responses. Here’s a synopsis of the poll results- Total Days Poll Ran: 42 Days Total Voters: 403 Total Votes: 688 (This was multiple selection poll) Average votes per voter: 1.7

Editor’s comments:

The poll intuitively makes sense. Excel should be at the top to be utilized most as an analytics tool.
SAS continues to be the preferred statistical tool used by analytics professionals.
R is bridging the gap with SAS and come close to be the third most used analytics tool.
SPSS is lagging since been acquired by IBM. Comes at 5 position.
Visualization tools ( Tableau, Qlikview, SSRS and Spotfire) comes at the bottom. One reason for their lower penetration may be high cost of ownership for just visualization capabilities. Excel continues to be the preferred visualization tool in the industry.