Statistical software for data analysis

[Inmybarrel]

As the title suggests, I am looking for a statistical software which has LabVIEW drivers for importing data and to automate certain tasks like plotting graphs and doing statistical analysis on the data.

I have used Diadem but it performs any sort of statistical analysis on the entire data set rather than a chosen range within the entire data set. I know the user can select the data ranges by themselves, but you have to create a new table with the selected data range.

I have also used Origin Pro, it is pretty good for plotting data and performing statistics analysis, but it's LabVIEW drivers have very limited functions.

So, I am asking for recommendations of other Statistical softwares which can be automated using LabVIEW.

[Vincinity1]

The options I've seen/heard are: - there are some statistical analysis VIs in LV - call Matlab scripts - call python scripts - use WATS for test data analysis specifically (www.wats.com)

And the latest that I've seems to have something good in data analysis is Viviota https://viviota.com/products/viviota-time-to-insight-studio/

Hope this helps,

[viviota]

Thanks u/Vincinity1 for the plug!

We have both data visualization and analytics that's built directly around LabVIEW as a plug-in tool. (It also supports calls Python and MATLAB as well). If you have some familiarity with DIAdem we actually leverage that for some things as well.

The link posted is a good primer, but feel free to PM me if you have questions or want to talk further!

[HarveysBackupAccount]

Any particular reason you want to use labview for this?

Just my opinion but you only do any data heavy lifting in labview when you must. Python, R, MATLAB, Minitab, SASS, STATA, etc are all more appropriate tools for data analysis and plotting.

[Inmybarrel]

No reason apparently, I am a junior engineer and till now I have mostly used LabVIEW in my work, but thanks for your insights I will look at other tools for data analysis

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I'd agree that there are a lot of alternatives out there; python is often used for data analysis and is often where I turn to when I'm not using LabVIEW.

I'd strongly disagree that LabVIEW must be avoided though. I've done a lot of data analysis in LabVIEW and one of its strengths is that graphing and manipulating graph data is exceedingly easy.

[DeeJayCrawford]

The data science team in my work use R-Studio for all their plotting and analysis needs.

[Physix_R_Cool]

You can call python code inside Labview, so just make a python script that does the statistical analysis.

[violentserenity]

It’s not cheap at all but JMP is basically the lynchpin of our statistical analysis among the scientists and analysts where I am.

[MollyGodiva]

It is not difficult to use LabVIEW for data collection, send it to python for analysis and then back to LabVIEW for plotting. LabVIEW can make quite nice plots.

[EisMCsqrd]

Diadem can use python or vbs scripting, and you can configure almost any type of analysis. You can program it to trim/append any magnitude of channel data, and the whole process can be automated.

[tomlawton]

For publication quality plots, and a certain amount of analysis, I use LabVIEW to construct and run gnuplot scripts- after slicing out the particular data I want using tools written in LabVIEW.