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I am currently working with some govt data. Not fun. If it ever got to the point that I could log in and pull some summary stats from a variety of clean, publ
by pyoung 14y ago
I am currently working with some govt data. Not fun. If it ever got to the point that I could log in and pull some summary stats from a variety of clean, public data sources, this could be very useful.
For me the issue isn't the complexity of SPSS (or in my case SAS and R), it is getting the data ready for analysis. Obviously I wouldn't expect Statwing to be able to do that to my own data, but for public data sets, which I occasionally use, it would save me a ton of time
- thronemonkey 14y agoThis is something that a favorite instructor of mine has stressed to me—the most difficult part of data analysis (and the part in which mistakes are most often made) is not choosing the correct analysis to do, nor actually performing it, but rather manipulating the data into the necessary shape/format. My favorite utilities for this are Hadley Wickham's plyr and reshape (http://had.co.nz/ http://had.co.nz/) (not sure if you already use these, figured I'd drop you a hint if not)
- kylemaxwell 14y agoTake a look at Google Refine; for some use cases, it's just fantastic.