Wizard - Statistics & Analysis App Reviews

I am a doctor and bioscientist with experience with other user-friendly statistical software (e.g. Excel, Prism) and only minor experience with Python and Matlab. Wizard is amazing. It does all the statistical tests I need (and more) in a format that is easy to understand, use, and modify. No longer do I have to sort, cut, and paste long columns of numbers to do my tests. Also, I like the structure of the user interface (e.g. the buttons to perform different tests correlate with the type of data they are best used on (e.g. nonparametric tests for data that is best represented by box plots). What’s more is that Wizard continues to get better, with improved easy of use and interoperability with Excel. It is worth every penny.

Great piece of software that does a wonderful job filtering and sorting your categories. You can really explore different facets of your data to find correlations and variances. I’ve used it to compare web performance information for different CDNs with datasets of several hundred thousand objects (15 columns per object). Visualizations are easy and straightforward (and just “happen”). Largely stable, though I found setting the confidence slider to 98% caused a repeatable crash with my dataset.

Wonderful program, and I am glad the developer put the time into creating a simple interface, and quick data visualization. Where this program differs from more robust statistical packages (like SPSS) is that aside from creating beautiful graphs and charts; the realtime reaction to changes in variables and data allows for a quick comparison of your dataset and the ability to play with data in order to see how changes in one variable will affect another. While it isn’t as robust in the types of statistical packages offered by the aforementioned program, Wizard seems to get right to the point of analysis. SPSS and other programs are great for their purpose. If you have refined questions about your data and know what type of analysis you need done, you may need something more. For now, this is all I need for my doctoral research. I am within the Social Sciences but the datasets I am working with are Paleoclimate datasets.

Works as advertised. Gets you to manipulation and analysis of dataset big enough to choke Word in minutes. As MacAddict would have said, “Freakin’ Awesome!"

UPDATE: This developer cares! I think I’ve gotten 3-4 updates so far for fine polishes and new features. UPDATE: Love the app! Any chance we’ll see an iOS version for iPad with .txt or .csv import from email attachments? As a Design for Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 15 years experience with MINITAB, I’ve been disappointed for so long that the software hasn’t returned (yes, it once was on Mac) to the platform that in my disappointment I never really found an alternative. That has ended. Wizard is fantastic…both in it’s implementation and simplicity as well as it’s statistical prowess. The attention to detail, the continuing development based on customer feedback, and the Mac OS X modern look and feel means the developer/author is serious about helping while making a return on his investment. I applaud the differentiation and version 1.5’s method of buying the upgrade-to-Pro feature that “you” need viz-a-viz importers from professional stats programs is well done. (I’m waiting for the MTB worksheet importer!). Finally, the outputs are as simple as the graphics are beautiful…contextually click just about anywhere to get output choices. Great job! App is dynamically expanding with updates and the developer has a weekly blog discussing use cases and upcoming changes. I highly recommend this for Mac OS X users in high school through professional working environments.

This statistical software package has all the tools that a clinical researcher could hope for in a format that is remarkable easy to use. Descriptive statsitics, basic comparison statistics, and simple survival analysis (kaplan-meier, cox proportional hazards w/ and w/o time-dependent covariates) are included. One gripe is that sometimes errors pop up when trying to build models that are not quite easy to debug.

Unnecessarily complicated and counterintuitive. It is probably OK if you never used a modern statistics software before, but if you have then you will find the user interface to be significantly unfamiliar and you should expect to spend some time learning how to navigate the different functions. Interestingly, starting with January 18, this software had SIX updates; almost one every four five days.

Impressive software. It will do a lot and I’m still trying to figure it out.

I have an MBA and do quite a bit in the operations management and business analytics arena. This is, hands down, the most valuable tool I’ve found to date. If you’ve used R and SAS you’ll appreciate the simplicity of what Evan has written here. Good package. Updates are frequent and Evan seems like all he does is work on it to add features. Does he sleep?

I’ve been using this program for more than three years and it has become my go-to stats application because it’s one of the easiest and most beautifully designed stats applications that I’ve ever used. I can spend time putting something together in Python Pandas or R, but that is a tremendous amount of time to spend on most of my projects. I have to really hand it to the developer, he has put together a program that is easily worth three times the cost, and the charts are far better than anything else I’ve seen out of the box. There is a lot of attention to little details, such as providing the formula with the graphics, automatically providing the best stats formula for the types of data being compared. And the developer is constantly making improvements. I can’t say for sure, but it seems to handle large data sets a lot easier than the version I used several years ago; its definitely more stable. There would be an occassional crash and then the bug report would go to Apple, and then a few days later I’ll notice in the updates section that the developer fixed the problem and is sending out an update. That’s awesome customer service and shows a real committment to the work. The only feature request that I would ask for, and I’d be willing to pay for it as an add-on, is to export some of the work as an R script to go along with publishing; though the formulas attached are super helpful for that already. It’d be nice to have an option to include a count with the smaller bar graphics when looking at categorical displays. Also nice would be to choose which categories go into the “Other” covariate comparison. Annddd .. being able to export graphics as vectors so they can be edited in Adobe Illustrator would be great also. Love this package.