In this category you will find posts that are related to programming and should be interesting for psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. Well, almost every researcher would probably find some of the information useful at some time!
Every research psychologist, cognitive scientist, and neuroscientist, should know how to program.. Knowing how to program and write scripts will make many of a researchers everyday tasks much easier. For instance, instead of going through line after line of raw data you can write a Python script that runs through each cell in each column. Furthermore, you get the possibility to use more advanced, and cutting edge, statistical techniques by using R statistical programming environment.
Another example might be to create experiments using PsychoPy (either by coding using Python or using the drag-and-drop interface) and the cheap and open-source Arduino microcontroller. Also, coding is fun and relaxing!
In this R tutorial, you will learn how to count the number of occurrences in a column. Sometimes, before starting to analyze your data, it may be useful to know how many times a given value occurs in your variables. For example, when you have a limited set of possible values that you want to […]
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to do the Brown-Forsythe test in R. This test is great as you can use it to test the assumption of homogeneity of variances, which is important for, e.g. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA). Outline of the Post This post is structured as follows. First, we start by answering
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In this guide, you will learn how to concatenate two columns in R. You will learn how to merge multiple columns in R using base R (e.g., using the paste function) and Tidyverse (e.g., using str_c() and unite()). In the final section of this post, you will learn which function is the best to use
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In this short tutorial, you will learn how to find the five-number summary statistics in R. Specifically, in this post, we will calculate: Now, we will also visualize the five-number summary statistics using a boxplot. First, we will learn how to calculate each of the five summary statistics and then how we can use one
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In this Python data visualization tutorial, we will learn how to create a violin plot in Python with Matplotlib and Seaborn. We can carry out several techniques for visualizing data (see the post 9 Data Visualization Techniques You Should Learn in Python for some examples). Violin plots combine both the box plot and the histogram.
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In this R tutorial, you will learn how to work with $ in R. First, we will have a look at a couple of examples for a list object and then for a dataframe object.
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In this data science tutorial, you will learn how to rename a column (or multiple columns) in R using base functions and dplyr. Renaming columns in R is very easy, especially using the rename() function. Now, renaming a column with dplyr and the rename() function is super simple. But, of course, it is not super
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This tutorial will cover how to calculate absolute value in R. it will cover how to compute absolute values using the built-in function abs(), e.g., abs(YourVector). The following section will give you a detailed outline of what this R tutorial covers.
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In this post, you will learn how to select columns in R. Selecting specific columns is crucial when working with data in Psychology and data science. Whether you are analyzing survey data to examine relationships between variables or performing data-wrangling tasks, knowing how to extract relevant columns may be essential for your analysis. Imagine you
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In this Python data analysis tutorial, you will learn how to perform a paired sample t-test in Python. First, you will learn about this type of t-test (e.g. when to use it, the assumptions of the test). Second, you will learn how to check whether your data follow the assumptions and what you can do
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