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# Tools  (List and briefly describe tools that were mentioned in the workshop. What could they be used for?) - [Microsoft Access](http://office.microsoft.com/access) Access](http://office.microsoft.com/access): Access is a database management system which is included in the Professional and higher editions of Microsoft Office.  - [SQL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL) [SQL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL): SQL is a language for managaging data held in relational databases.  - [Podio](http://podio.com/) [Podio](http://podio.com/): A cloud-based customer relationship managment (CRM) software.  - [SurveyMonkey](https://surveymonkey.com/): This software allows you to design, conduct and analyse web surveys.  - [Filemaker](http://www.filemaker.com/): This is the Mac equivalent to MS Access - it enables you to build your own database. It also has a web access for people to add information to the database from the web.  - [Mechanical Turk](https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome). Turk](https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome):  Find people who do cheap manual tasks (like cleaning excel sheets). - [Google Analytics](https://www.google.com/analytics) Analytics](https://www.google.com/analytics): A web analytics tool which provides access and usage statistics for websites.  - [Piwik](https://piwik.org/) [Piwik](https://piwik.org/): An open-source web analytics tool.  - [Google Alerts](https://www.google.com/alerts) Alerts](https://www.google.com/alerts): A notification servic which notifies users when content containing keywords defined by the user appear in media websites.  - [Buzzlogix](https://www.buzzlogix.com/de/) [Buzzlogix](https://www.buzzlogix.com/de/):  The software allows for sentiment and text analysis of posts and references and enables you to identify influencers, advocates and multipliers. - [A list of sentiment analysis tools](http://www.iprospect.com/en/ca/blog/10-sentiment-analysis-tools-track-social-marketing-success/)  - [Tableau](http://www.tableau.com/) [Tableau](http://www.tableau.com/): An easy to use data visualisation software which allows even novices to create beautiful graphics.  - [Plotly](https://plot.ly/) [Plotly](https://plot.ly/): A cloud-based software with which one can create interactive graphics. It works with a variety of progamming languages and softwares such as R, Python or Excel.  - [RAW](http://raw.densitydesign.org/) [RAW](http://raw.densitydesign.org/): A online tool to create vector graphics from spreadsheets.  - [Shiny in R](https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/) R](https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/): Interactive visualizations, for instance maps, with [R](http://r-project.org/).