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Author: Erik Marsja

PhD Student in Psychology, Umeå University. Main interest is experimental and cognitive psychology. Enjoy programming in Python and R.

Tutorial: How to Read Stata Files in Python with Pandas

Erik Marsja Erik Marsja
November 11, 2019
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In this post, we are going to learn how to read Stata (.dta) files in Python.

As previously described (in the read .sav files in Python post) Python is a general-purpose language that also can be used for doing data analysis and data visualization. One example of data visualization will be found in this post.

One potential downside, however, is that Python is not really user-friendly for data storage. This has, of course, lead to that our data many times are stored using Excel, SPSS, SAS, or similar software. See, for instance, the posts about reading .sav, and sas files in Python:

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How to Import Data: Reading SAS Files in R

Erik Marsja Erik Marsja
October 27, 2019
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How to Import Data: Reading SAS Files in R

In this post, we are going to learn how to read SAS (. sas7bdat) files in R. More specifically, we are going to use the packages haven, and sas7bdat. Furthermore, we will also learn how to load .sas7bdat files into R using RStudio.

If you are interested in other methods on how to import data in R:

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How to Make a Scatter Plot in R with Ggplot2

Erik Marsja Erik Marsja
October 16, 2019
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How to Make a Scatter Plot in R with Ggplot2

In this post, we will learn how make scatter plots using R and the package ggplot2.

More specifically, we will learn how to make scatter plots, change the size of the dots, change the markers, the colors, and change the number of ticks. 

Furthermore, we will learn how to plot a trend line, add text, plot a distribution on a scatter plot, among other things. In the final section of the scatter plot in R tutorial, we will learn how to save plots in high resolution.

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How to Read SAS Files in Python with Pandas

Erik Marsja Erik Marsja
October 13, 2019
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How to Read SAS Files in Python with Pandas

In this post, we are going to learn how to read SAS (.sas7bdat) files in Python.

As previously described (in the read .sav files in Python post) Python is a general-purpose language that also can be used for doing data analysis and data visualization.

One potential downside, however, is that Python is not really user-friendly for data storage. This has, of course, lead to that our data many times are stored using Excel, SPSS, SAS, or similar software. See, for instance, the posts about reading .sav, .dta, and .xlxs files in Python:

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How to use iloc and loc for Indexing and Slicing Pandas Dataframes

Erik Marsja Erik Marsja
September 29, 2019
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How to use iloc and loc for Indexing and Slicing Pandas Dataframes

In this post, we are going to work with Pandas iloc, and loc. More specifically, we are going to learn slicing and indexing by iloc and loc examples.

Once we have a dataset loaded as a Pandas dataframe, we often want to start accessing specific parts of the data based on some criteria. For instance, if our dataset contains the result of an experiment comparing different experimental groups, we may want to calculate descriptive statistics for each experimental group separately.

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How to Use Binder and R for Reproducible Research

Erik Marsja Erik Marsja
September 15, 2019
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How to Use Binder and R for Reproducible Research

In a previous post, we learned how to use Binder and Python for reproducible research. Now we are going to learn how to create a Binder for our data analysis in R, so it can be fully reproduced by other researchers. More specifically, in this post we will learn how to use Binder for reproducible research.

Many researchers upload their code for data analysis and visualization using git (e.g., to GitHub, Gitlab).

No doubt, uploading your R scripts is great. However, we also need to make sure that we share the complete computational environment so that our code can be re-run and so that others can reproduce the results. That is, to have a fully reproducible example, we need a way to capture the different versions of the R packages we were using, at that particular time.

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How to Read & Write SPSS Files in Python using Pandas

Erik Marsja Erik Marsja
September 8, 2019
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How to Read & Write SPSS Files in Python using Pandas

In this post we are going to learn 1) how to read SPSS (.sav) files in Python, and 2) how to write to SPSS (.sav) files using Python. 

Python is a great general-purpose language as well as for carrying out statistical analysis and data visualization. However, Python is not really user-friendly when it comes to data storage. Thus, often our data will be archived using Excel, SPSS or similar software.

For example, learn how to import data from other file types, such as Excel, SPSS, and Stata in the following two posts:

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