DREAM Lab software applications and workstations

Many of our software applications have been made available on Azure Labs cloud workstations.  Azure Labs cloud workstations come with administrative privileges to install personal and open source/free software in addition to the pre-installed software.Those that are marked 'only in DREAM Lab' are only in available in the physical lab. Please email us at dreamlab@library.ucsb.edu with any questions.

Software versions last updated October 2023.

Hardware:

Our 10 DREAM Lab workstations are outfitted as follows:

  • 11th Gen Intel® Core(TM)  processors (2.5GHz, 8 total cores)
  • 64 GB RAM
  • 1TB Solid State Drive
  • 32" 4K displays (3840x2160) on 9 workstations

Software:

Specialized software available in the physical DREAM Lab lab (2nd Floor, Mountainside, UCSB Library) includes the following packages:

Graphics

 

 

Remote Access (see Azure virtual machines)

Adobe Creative Cloud

2023

Illustrator, PhotoShop, etc.

Limited to staff/faculty. Information on Personal edu licenses.

Agisoft Metashape

1.8.4

3d modelling. Create 3d model from photographs

not available remotely, only in DREAM Lab

Blender

3.2.2

3d modelling. Game design. Environment modeling

Free, open source at Blender download
Unreal Engine   3d modeling and VR design Free

 

 

     

GeoSpatial

 

 

 

ArcGIS Desktop Advanced

10.8.2

geographic/spatial analysis and mapping This software is headed for retirement and is only available via specialty software request.

ArcGIS Pro

2.9.5

geographic/spatial analysis and mapping

Available to all UCSB Affiliates at 

ArcGIS Desktop and Pro

QGIS

3.26.1

geographic/spatial analysis and mapping

Free, open source at QGIS download

Google Earth Pro

7.3.6

geographic visualization

Free, open source at Google Earth

 

 

     

Qualitative Analysis

 

 

 

MAXQDA

2022.2

qualitative data analysis

This software is available onsite in the DREAM Lab and limited quantities via specialty software request.

or educational licensing/pricing available at MAXQDA Student License

NVivo

12/14

qualitative data organization and analysis. Twitter harvest

This software is available onsite in the DREAM Lab and in limited quantities via specialty software request.

 

 

 

 

Financial Data

 

 

 

Datastream for Eikon

4

historical financial data (Excel add-in)

This software is available onsite in the DREAM Lab and limited quantities via specialty software request.

Eikon

4.0.5

historical financial data

This software is available onsite in the DREAM Lab and limited quantities via specialty software request.

 

 

 

 

Utilities

 

 

 

StatTransfer

16

Data conversion utility

Student pricing available at Student StatTransfer

Git (Bash)

2.4

version control

Free, open source at Git Download

JQ

1.5

parse JSON data from command-line

Free, github: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

PuTTY

0.71

SSH client

Free, open source: https://www.putty.org/

OpenRefine

3.6.1

data cleaning and transformation

Free, open source: https://openrefine.org/

       

Quantitative Analysis

 

/ Programming

 

Python (64-bit)

3.8

Statistical programming 

Free, open source at Python Downloads

Python w/Anaconda Package Manager

2023.09.01 (Python v.3.8.8)

*Our current version is for Python 3.8

Free, open source at Anaconda Distribution

Twarc

1.6.1

python application to harvest twitter streams

Free, open source, github:https://github.com/DocNow/twarc

R / Rstudio

2023.06

statistical programming environment

Free, open source at Rstudio Products 

SPSS

28

statistical data analysis

Available to all UCSB Affiliates at UCSB - SPSS License Request

Matlab

R2022a 9.12

statistical programming environment

UCSB Affiliates only. Student licenses at Mathworks

STATA

17.0

statistical programming environment

Student pricing available at Stata short-term and student licensing

SAS

9.4

statistical programming environment

Reduced pricing and free versions available at SAS Academic Programs

Mathematica

13

technical computing

Available to all UCSB Affiliates at: Mathematica Student License Information

EViews

12.0.0.0

econometric analysis

Reduced student pricing available at: Eviews 12 University Edition

*Version numbers may change incrementally during the quarter, but we generally try to avoid doing major upgrades.

 

The DREAM team is interested in supporting current research and teaching throughout campus. Suggestions for additional software are welcome from UCSB affiliates. 

Oversize Displays

The DREAM Lab has three 85" 4K (3840x2160) displays and one projector. Researchers working from DREAM Lab workstations can project their work onto any of these displays. Devices can also be wirelessly connected to the monitors using the Clickshare. See DREAM Lab staff for assistance with showing work on these displays.