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Cofounder here. Totally agree that the hardest thing about data analysis is getting the data together. But it's still true that once you have data, working wit
by glaugh 14y ago
Cofounder here. Totally agree that the hardest thing about data analysis is getting the data together.
But it's still true that once you have data, working with SPSS, R, etc. is a nightmare unless you're trained or somewhat technical. I actually did work with SPSS professionally for a couple years. And I was a lot like the roughly half of SPSS users who are nontechnical, and only need the basic analyses.
The two biggest painpoints for these users are knowing what test to run when and the difficulty of interpreting and working with the output. There's a ton of people, particularly more technical folks, for whom those are not big pain points, and that's fine too. They're just not in our target audience.
Also, RE the output comparison. Valid point if it looked like the implication was that SPSS can't output a histogram. Our point, though, is that we do it by default in the three clicks that it takes to output text, and it takes a lot more work to output even T-Test results in SPSS. Practically speaking, day-to-day nontechnical users don't visualize much in tools like SPSS because it's painful to do so.
Thanks for the comment, really appreciate it.