In this post, you will learn how to create a Psychomotor vigilance task in PsychoPy using the Builder GUI and some Python code.
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Learn how to use Binder, mybinder, git, and GitHub to make your R statistical analysis and visualization reproducible for other researchers.
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In this post, we will learn how to create a binder so that our data analysis, for instance, can be fully reproduced by other researchers. That is, here we will learn how to use a tool called Binder for reproducible research. In previous posts, we have learned how to carry out data analysis (e.g., ANOVA)
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In this OpenSesame tutorial,l we will learn how to use images as stimuli and how to load the trials, including filenames, correct responses, and conditions, from a pre-generated CSV file. To follow this tutorial, you don’t need to know Python programming. However, we will generate the CSV file using a short Python script. This can
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In this post, you are going to learn how to create a simple experiment using the free experiment building software OpenSesame. As I have previously written about, OpenSesame is an application based on Python for creating Psychology, Neuroscience, and Economics experiments. It offers a nice and easy-to-use interface. In this interface, you can drag and
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PsychoPy, as I have previously written about (e.g., Free and Useful Software and PsychoPy tutorial) is really a great Python tool for creating Psychology experiments. You can write Python code by either using “code view” or importing the package in your favorite IDE. Furthermore, you can use the builder mode and just drag and drop different
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Spyder is the best Python IDE that I have tested so far for doing data analysis, but also for plain programming. In this post I will start to briefly describe the IDE. Following the description of this top IDE the text will continue with a discussion of my favorite features. You will also find out how to
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This post aims to show why you, as a psychology student or researcher (or any other kind of researcher or student) should learn to program. The post is structured as follows. First, I start by discussing why you should learn to program and then give some examples of when programming skills are helpful. I continue
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Good resources for learning R as a Psychologist are hard to find. By that, I mean that there are so many great sites and blogs to learn R. Thus, it may be hard to find learning resources that target Psychology researchers. Outline The structure of this post is as follows. First, we start by getting
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I recently wrote a post on the RStudio like Python IDE Rodeo (RStudio-like Python IDEs – Rodeo and Spyder). In that post, I installed and tested Rodeo 0.44. However, Rodeo 1.0 was released in October. Rodeo 1.0 cannot be installed using Pip. Therefore, I wrote a bash script for downloading and unzipping Rodeo. Note, the
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