Wizard 2 4+

Statistics. Reimagined‪.‬

Evan Miller

    • 4.4 • 49 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Maybe part of your job involves working with data. Maybe you have a trove of data at work, but haven't had time to dig into it. Maybe you're the kind of person who reads a sensational headline and wants to know what the numbers say. Maybe you're taking a statistics class – or maybe you're teaching one.

In all these cases, Wizard has something to offer: an easy-to-use, Mac-native program for importing, pivoting, visualizing, and analyzing data. Wizard is different from other programs because there's no syntax to learn – the app instantly creates compelling graphics and performs relevant statistical tests as you click, filter, select, and explore a data set. Most customers are clicking and smiling in under an hour.

How is this variable affected by that one? Is this correlation statistically significant? Can I predict an outcome from several inputs? Wizard is designed to answer these kinds of questions in an intuitive, visual interface, with all the statistical details for those who want to know more. P-values and standard errors come to life in textbook-style illustrations that help you and others understand exactly what they mean.

Many customers find that Wizard hits a sweet spot between Excel and higher-end statistics packages. Wizard has advanced modeling capabilities lacking in Excel – including survival analysis, logistic regression, and choice modeling – and works with millions of rows of data. Unlike legacy statistics packages and open-source offerings, Wizard is designed as a comfortable Mac-first experience, with Undo/Redo, autosaved documents, native graphics, and full-screen windows. For students and occasional analysts, Wizard works as an all-in-one statistics package; for professionals, it's often a place for a quick first pass before resorting to more cumbersome programs.

Wizard is organized around tabular data. So if you have a CSV – or a file in a dozen other formats, including Access, Excel, FileMaker Pro, JSON, and Numbers – Wizard can read it in and get to work immediately. The Pro version has several additional file importers and SQL database connectors (see below for details).

Don't have data on hand? New in Wizard 2 is the ability to import data directly from Safari. If you see a table of data on (say) Wikipedia that looks interesting, click the Share button in the Safari toolbar, click Wizard 2, and presto – instant histograms and proportion bars representing the data in each column. Another click opens that data as a new document, ready for further analysis and exploration.

The Safari importer is not the only new feature in Wizard 2. Customers upgrading from the original version can expect to enjoy:

• Dark Mode, including a vibrant new color palette

• An updated Raw Data module, supporting keyboard navigation, Copy/Paste, and Find and Replace

• An all-new Correlate module, giving you a high-level visual overview of an entire data set at once

• A redesigned Predict module, showing several response curves simultaneously

• Larger, more visually pleasing graphics throughout the program

• An all-new FileMaker Pro importer

• An all-new Microsoft SQL Server connector

• Full optimization for the Apple M1 chip


Note that Wizard 2 is subscription software. Two subscription levels are available:

• Standard - Imports spreadsheets, text files, database files, web pages, and JSON files. Supports all model types and statistical tests.

• Pro - Includes all Standard features, and additionally imports R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata files. Connects to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server databases. Generates commands for R, SAS, SPSS, and Stata.

Special introductory pricing is available to existing Wizard users – simply follow the instructions after launching Wizard 2 for the first time.

Still undecided? Download the app to unlock a 21-day Free Trial.

Terms of Use: https://www.wizardmac.com/termsofuse.html

What’s New

Version 2.0.16

• Fix an issue where Wizard 2 could not launch on macOS 11 and earlier
• Fix an issue where the Predict view did not appear on macOS 14 Sonoma

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
49 Ratings

49 Ratings

SBCpp ,

A great tool that is still a bargain!

I have used Wizard for a few years now. I initially had problems adjusting to the user interface and its limitations, but with time it became indispensible. I use it with Numbers or with Excel, and I am always amazed with its ease of use, versatlity power. and speed. Beside being a reasonably good statistical software, its most powerful feature is data visualization. You can quickly and efortlessly explore your data and find out relations you did not think exicsted and you would have not explored if it was not for the ease it is done with Wizard. Fro those complaining about the subscription model, I am a big supporter of this model that insures the viability of the app (and developer) and continuous bug fixes and updates. Fopr comparison purposes, Prism (from GraphPad) also switched to subscription, is not conveniently available on the Mac App Store (which I definately predfer), and cost much more on a yearly basis (check it out). Further, specialty software ike Wizard have a limited userbase (unlike games, notes applications, ..) so the price per user has to be higher than your general use apps to stay viable. I am a bif fan of Wizard, and wholhreartedly support the subscription model.

bgrh ,

A uniquely powerful statistics App for the rest of us

This program is an anathema to staid statisticians.

Like any good Mac program Wizard 2 encourages you to explore, to poke and prod, to dig, and to while doing that you learn and understand.

It does NOT force you to decide what test to run, depending on your “deep” knowledge to ensure that the test you are running makes sense for the data set you are examining.

Instead, Wizard 2 looks at what you’ve asked to compare, and based on the data presented, it picks the best test, and if there are useful options it presents them to you.

I’ve used the precursor, Wizard, for years, and I’ve compared the results to ones generated by SPSS, and surprise, math is math - the results are identical - the confusion is not.

The UI on Wizard 2 is a subtle tweak from the original - but - what a tweak. Multivariate analysis sings, and correlations dance.

I’m a visual thinker, and Wizard 2 was made for me.

One last point - when you email the developer, he responds, really! Have a question? He answers it. Found a bug? He fixes it. Have a good idea? He implements it.

Evan has been crafting and polishing this gem for years, and this extraordinary labor of love is the result.

C$$$678866 ,

Really great--excellent value for the money

This is really a fantastic tool. I use it all the time and it is a huge time saver. I love the auto models and the pivot table. The only thing that could make it better is if some of the figures were editable (ie. change colors/fonts etc) but that is probably too much to ask and would be a bonus
I also think that folks who are complaining about the subscription model are not being fair. I am sure this took a lot of time and effort to develop

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