R is what we use in our lab, its free and most commonly used tool today, everywhere from New York Times (to explore and visualize data for their articles) to hundreds of thousands of scientists. Even if you feel its above your level, come and just see to get the ideas of what you can do with data:

MARCH 7, 2014, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. @ The Graduate Center, Room 6304.01

Excavating Knowledge from Data: Introducing Data Mining using R

http://datamining.ws.gc.cuny.edu/upcoming-events/

R is what we use in our lab, its free and most commonly used tool today, everywhere from New York Times (to explore and visualize data for their articles) to hundreds of thousands of scientists. Even if you feel its above your level, come and just see to get the ideas of what you can do with data:

MARCH 7, 2014, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. @ The Graduate Center, Room 6304.01

Excavating Knowledge from Data: Introducing Data Mining using R

http://datamining.ws.gc.cuny.edu/upcoming-events/