Tactic Foundry

Profession directory / 22 apps

Software for Science & Research

Browse general-purpose and specialist apps relevant to science & research workflows. Analyze data and images, run notebooks and numerical work, manage citations, map findings, and communicate research.

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Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

jamovi

A statistics application with spreadsheet-style data handling and reproducible analyses built on R.

Study & ResearchOpen Source

JASP

An open-source statistics application with a spreadsheet-style interface for classical and Bayesian analysis.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

JupyterLab

An interactive environment for notebooks, code, data, equations, visualizations, experiments, and reproducible research.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

Metabase

A self-hosted business-intelligence application for querying databases, building dashboards, and sharing answers through a browser.

Office & ProductivityFreemium

Microsoft Excel

A spreadsheet application for calculations, schedules, budgets, inventories, records, dashboards, and data analysis.

Programming Languages & RuntimesOpen Source

Python

A versatile programming language used for automation, data, web development, and AI.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

QGIS

An open-source geographic information system for mapping, spatial analysis, field planning, and location data.

Education & LearningOpen Source

Stellarium

An open-source planetarium that renders a realistic sky for astronomy learning, observing plans, and presentations.

Data & AnalyticsFree

Tableau Public

A free visual-analytics platform for exploring public data, building interactive visualizations, and publishing them to the Tableau Public community.

Education & LearningOpen Source

Zotero

A research assistant for collecting, organizing, citing, and sharing sources.

Data & AnalyticsFree for Personal Use

Anaconda Distribution

A Python and data-science distribution that bundles conda, Navigator, Jupyter, and a large collection of curated packages.

Education & LearningOpen Source

Celestia

A real-time 3D space simulator for exploring planets, moons, stars, spacecraft, and astronomical objects.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

Fiji (ImageJ)

A scientific image-analysis distribution of ImageJ bundled with a broad collection of community plugins.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

GNU Octave

A numerical computing environment for mathematics, data analysis, simulation, plotting, and MATLAB-compatible workflows.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

GNU PSPP

A free statistical analysis program for sampled data, descriptive statistics, tests, and regression workflows.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

Orthanc

A lightweight DICOM server for authorized medical-imaging workflows, integration, research, and controlled clinical environments.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

ParaView

A scientific data-analysis and visualization application for large datasets, simulations, and technical research.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

QuPath

An open-source platform for bioimage analysis, digital pathology research, annotation, measurement, and scripting.

Data & AnalyticsOpen Source

R

A programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.