R is a free and open-source statistical programming environment. Being open-source and free it has a large and helpful online community (for instance, see StackOverflow). When I went from carrying out analysis in SPSS to do them in R, I searched for good books targeted to Psychologists. The following 4 R books are useful and good for Psychologists that want to learn R.
The first book, Discovering Statistics Using R, may be a really good start if you are an undergraduate and have no experience of programming or statistics. The next two books are from intermediate to advanced level. The last book is, at the moment, free and is also a great introduction to statistics.
Category: Books
Python for Data Analysis
I bought the book ‘Python for Data Analysis‘ because I wanted to improve my Python skills. This review of the book is a brief summary of my impressions of it.