Learning to use a data analysis tool well takes significant effort, so people tend to continue using the tool they learned in college for much of their careers. As a result, the software used by professors and their students is … Continue reading →
Posts Tagged ‘ SPSS ’
Will 2015 be the Beginning of the End for SAS and SPSS?
Interview with Kai Chew, CloudStat
Here is an interview with Kai Chew, Founder of Cloudstat. CloudStat is developing a cloud-based statistical platform to help researchers who want to make sense of data to do statistical analysis collaboratively with its high performance computing infra...
The Popularity of Data Analysis Software (R vs SAS vs SPSS, etc.)
Robert Muenchen, the author of R for SAS and SPSS Users (A great book I’m proud to have on my shelf), has published this week an article in which he compares the popularity/market-share of many of the common statistical packages including R, SAS, SPSS and many others. The full article is available on r4stats.com at: ”The Popularity of Data Analysis...
Software tools for data analysis – an overview
by Szilard Pafka Discussions on various software tools (C, C++, Perl, Python, Unix shell, R, Matlab, SAS, SPSS, Excel, databases, Hadoop etc.) used in data analysis. Szilard Pafka (founder and co-organizer of the Los Angeles R users group) presents an … Continue reading →
The Clipboard can be Your Friend
One of the features I feel that I don’t leverage enough, particularly for ad-hoc questions, is the clipboard feature in R. I know there are many ways to use it – as I have been exposed to a few – but the example below, even without context, should get you thinking about how awesome R 
Remove all rows of an R dataframe
I should have probably figured this out a long time ago, but as I get deeper into programming with R, I am finding the need to remove all rows from a dataframe. I was making this alot harder than it had to be. your.df<- your.df Replace your.df with, your dataframe and you are good 
Rose plot using Deducers ggplot2 plot builder
The (excellent!) LearnR blog had a post today about making a rose plot in ggplot2. Following today’s announcement, by Ian Fellows, regarding the release of the new version of Deducer (0.4) offering a strong support for ggplot2 using a GUI plot builder, Ian also sent an e-mail where he shows how to create a rose plot using the new...
ggplot2 plot builder is now on CRAN! (through Deducer 0.4 GUI for R)
Ian fellows, a hard working contributer to the R community (and a cool guy), has announced today the release of Deducer (0.4) to CRAN (scheduled to update in the next day or so). This major update also includes the release of a new plug-in package (DeducerExtras), containing additional dialogs and functionality. Following is the e-mail he sent out with...
Navigate the Bermuda Triangle of Mediation Analysis
MYTHS AND TRUTHS ABOUT AN OFTEN-USED, LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD STATISTICAL PROCEDURE If you go to a consumer research conference, you will hear tales of how experiments have undergone particular statistical rites: the attainment of the elusive crossover interaction, the demonstration of full mediation through Baron and Kenny’s sacred procedure, and so on. DSN has nothing against any
An article attacking R gets responses from the R blogosphere – some reflections
In this post I reflect on the current state of the R blogosphere, and share my hopes for the future
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
