A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Started with R

R has a reputation for being intimidating. People hear “programming language” and “statistics” in the same sentence and assume it’s not for them. But R is more approachable than it looks, and the payoff – free, powerful, reproducible data analysis – is enormous. This guide will walk you through everything you need to get started, … Read more

From SPSS to R – Why the Switch Matters

If you studied psychology in Georgia, or in most of the world, really, you learned statistics through SPSS. You opened the data, you clicked through menus, you got tidy output tables, and you wrote up your results. SPSS has been the default statistical software in psychology departments for decades, and that legacy runs deep. But … Read more