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Statisticians Workbench — Version 0.12.0 Documentation

Overview and navigation for all v0.12.0 documentation
Captured screenshots of every Workbench page — login, landing, recipes, AI, admin, and more

Getting Started

What the Workbench is, who it's for, and the core concepts
Installing on Linux directly. Workbench Win and Workbench Mac desktop editions.
Configuring your Workbench after installation
Detailed release notes from v0.9 through v0.12.0

Recipe Systemredesigned in 0.12.0

The complete recipe workflow — creating, editing, executing, and sharing recipes
Complete reference for every recipe stage
Transform management — two-panel editor, 8 operation types, live preview
Universal ops compiler — 5 backends, capability matrix, pandas fallback
Group-based sharing, read-only mode, and recipe forking
JSON/YAML export and import for recipe portability
Dynamic discovery of algorithm and visualisation types from backend API

AI-Guided Analysis

How the AI assistant guides recipe building — sees your schema and data, suggests stages and configuration
Multi-turn educational concierge replacing single-turn chat (6 phases, 23 tasks)
Setup for Anthropic, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible providers
Specialised AI agents for specific tasks

Data Sources

Connecting to PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB, SQL Server, and MS Access
SQL Servernew in 0.11.0
MS Accessnew in 0.11.0
Importing CSV, JSON, and Excel files with automatic type detection
DuckDB federated SQL joins across uploaded files and database tables. AI-guided creation.
Understanding dataset sources — database tables, uploaded files, virtual datasets, recipe outputs

Statistics & Visualisation

Descriptive statistics, correlation, t-tests, ANOVA, chi-square, linear regression
Complete reference for all chart types
Scatter plotnew in 0.12.0
Area chartnew in 0.12.0
Horizontal barnew in 0.12.0
Donut chartnew in 0.12.0
Histogramnew in 0.12.0
Distributionnew in 0.12.0
PNG, SVG, PDF export of charts
Importing .ipynb files into the workspace

User Management

Creating accounts, self-registration with email verification, password policies, language preferences
Organising users into groups, sharing resources, group administration
System administration — user management, global settings, licence management, scheduled tasks
Demo mode with banner indicators and resource restrictions. Example user account for learning.

Platform

9 languages in the application UI, targeting 20. Language switching and translation management.
YAML-based translation key system. Delta-mode import. Adding a new language.
Speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities. Per-user settings.
Hamburger drawer navigation, responsive sidebars, touch-optimised targets
Local-first architecture, data privacy, AI provider choices, security best practices
Open-source Workbench vs Workbench-BE commercial edition. Licence key activation and feature flags.
Copy-to-clipboard functionality. Demo mode visual indicators and feature restrictions.

Reference

Historical documentation for version 0.9. Useful for context and upgrade planning.
The original vision — AI as "glasses for the mind" (from v0.9, still relevant)
Client-server approach and platform integrations (from v0.9, partially updated)