Social Science Software
The Data-Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC) sponsors various software packages utilized in social science research at Yale. DISSC acts as a liaison between the research community and the organizations responsible for acquiring, licensing, or renewing these software titles.
Currently, while we don't provide direct support for using these packages, we can guide researchers to other campus resources that offer assistance. We're committed to helping connect researchers with the appropriate support channels for their software needs.
All of the titles below, and others, can be found via the Yale Software Catalog site.
Statistical Software
Stata
Stata is a widely-used integrated software package that provides data manipulation, visualization, and statistical capabilities. The university has a license for Stata MP2 v18 for use by faculty, staff and students on campus-owned machines and off campus on personal machines for academic use . The software is available for download to local or remote machines and is installed on Yale Library’s public and cloud machines, and at YCRC.
SAS
SAS is a statistical software suite developed by SAS Institute for data management, advanced analytics, multivariate analysis and predictive analytics. The university has a license for SAS v9.4M8 for use by faculty, staff and students. The software is available for download to local or remote machines and is installed on Yale Library’s public and cloud machines, and at YCRC.
JMP
JMP is a statistical software package with tools for data preparation, analysis, and graphing. The university has a license for JMP vX for use by faculty, staff and students. The software is available for download to local or remote machines and is installed on Yale Library’s public and cloud machines, and at YCRC.
Minitab
Minitab offers statistics, data analytics, and visualizations within a user-friendly design that makes it easy to analyze data. The university has a license for Minitab v22 for use by faculty, staff and students. The software is available for download to local or remote machines and is installed on Yale Library’s public and cloud machines.
Matlab and Mathematica
Matlab and Mathematica are maintained by the YCRC Science Research Software Core. Information is available via the YCRC Site.
Transcription and Text Analysis Software
Trint
TRINT AI uses automated speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) to convert speech to text. Trint allows users of video or audio files to gain greater value by making them searchable, editable and shareable. Yale researchers can request a license to use Trint for a limited period of time at no cost, similar to loaning a book from a library.
Nvivo
NVivo is software that supports qualitative and mixed methods research. It's designed to help organize, analyze and find insights in unstructured, or qualitative data including: interviews, open-ended survey responses, articles, social media and web content. Eligible users can access this title through the Software Library. Faculty and students can also access this title through MyApps.
Other Software
StatTransfer
Stat/Transfer provides data transfer between statistical packages, databases, and spreadsheets, handling missing data, value and variable labels, and many of the details necessary to moving information from one file format to another
Other Software Sources
Statistical tools for experimental research at ISPS.
Software at YCRC
Learn about the various research environments at Yale via the YCRC.