In the posts in this category you will find Python scripts. Python is said to be one of the easiest programming language to learn. Learning one language will also make it easier to learn another, much more advanced, one. As a Bachelor student in the cognitive science programme I got to take Python courses. However, it was not before I started my Ph.D years that I realized how much use I had because I knew some programming.
For a psychology researcher Python might be ideal since it is relatively easy to learn and there is a huge Python community to get help from. How to build experiments using free and open-source tools such as PsychoPy, OpenSesame, Expyriment, and PyEPL is, for instance, something you could find in this category.
In this tutorial we will learn how to use Pandas sample to randomly select rows and columns from a Pandas dataframe. There are some reasons for randomly sample our data; for instance, we may have a very large dataset and want to build our models on a smaller sample of the data. Other examples are […]
In this tutorial we will learn how to work with Excel files and Python. It will provide an overview of how to use Pandas to load and write spreadsheets to Excel. In the first section, we will go through, with examples, how to read an Excel file, how to read specific columns from a spreadsheet, […]
Learn three data manipulation techniques with Pandas in this guest post by Harish Garg, a software developer and data analyst, and the author of Mastering Exploratory Analysis with pandas. Modifying a Pandas DataFrame Using the inplace Parameter In this section, you’ll learn how to modify a DataFrame using the inplace parameter. You’ll first read a real dataset into […]
In this brief Python data analysis tutorial we will learn how to carry out a repeated measures ANOVA using Statsmodels. More specifically, we will learn how to use the AnovaRM class from statsmodels anova module. To follow this guide you will need to have Python, Statsmodels, Pandas, and their dependencies installed. One easy way to […]
In this Pandas tutorial we will learn how to work with Pandas dataframes. More specifically, we will learn how to read and write Excel (i.e., xlsx) and CSV files using Pandas. We will also learn how to add a column to Pandas dataframe object, and how to remove a column. Finally, we will learn how […]
In this short post I will show you a quick fix for the error “unsupported operand type(s) for +: ‘float’ and ‘NoneType’” with Pyvttbl. In earlier posts I have showed how to carry out ANOVA using Pyvttbl (among other packages. See posts 1, 2, 3, and 4 for ANOVA using pyvttbl). However, Pyvttbl is not […]
In this post, PyCharm vs Spyder will be compared. If you have followed my blog you may have noticed that a lot of focus have been put on how to learn programming (particularly in Python). I have also written about Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). I think that an IDE may, in fact, be very useful […]
In this short post we are going to revisit the topic on how to carry out summary/descriptive statistics in Python. In the previous post, I used Pandas (but also SciPy and Numpy, see Descriptive Statistics Using Python) but now we are only going to use Numpy. The descriptive statistics we are going to calculate are […]
One of the great things with programming is that you can automate things that is boring. As a student I often get schedules in the form of Word documents. I prefer to have all my activities in a calendar and used to manually put every time in a course into my calendar. Today I got […]
In this video you learn how to create a Flanker task using the Python package Expyriment. If you don’t know Expyriment it is an open-source library. You can program your experiments and run on Linux, Windows, and OS-x computers as well as on Android devices. In the tutorial you will get familiar with Expyriment and […]