The Research Cell of VVM’s Shree Damodar College of Commerce & Economics organized a session on ‘StatCraft’ for the faculty of the college on 7th August 2018 at 12.00 noon in Room no. 113. The session was conducted by Mr. Shubham Das and Mr. Manjunath M.C. and 42 faculty members of the college attended the same.
Mr. Das began the session by discussing about the commonly used software in research such as Gretle, SPSS and Excel. He stressed that Stat Craft is a software which is user friendly with minimal learning curve and also cost effective.
Mr. Manjunath practically showed how the software Stat Craft can be used. He explained various commands such as:
• Attach (iris) and str (iris) – to gain output
• Sepal length and width and petal length and width
• Summary (iris)
• Plot (sepal.length) – to display in graph
• Commands for change in colour, symbol etc.
• Importing the data
• Creation of scatter plot
Mr. Das mentioned that the special feature of this software is that it has an option to share the data without someone editing or manipulating the data. Also, it does not require internet connectivity. Users can access the software through LAN. Also the software can be customized according to the requirement of the users. The cost of the software for fifty users is three lakh rupees.
Statcraft can be used as a standalone tool for regular data analysis.
