Publications by Bob Muenchen
A Comparative Review of the RKWard GUI for R
Introduction RKWard is a free and open source Graphical User Interface for the R software, one that supports beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses, as well as advanced programmers. You can think of it as a blend of the menus and dialog boxes that R Commander offers combined with the programming support that RStudio provi...
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The Popularity of Point-and-Click GUIs for R
Point-and-click graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for R allow people to analyze data using the R software, without having to learn how to program in the R language. This is a brief look at how popular each one is. Knowing that a GUI is popular doesn’t mean it will meet your needs, but it does mean that it’s meeting the needs of many others. T...
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A Comparative Review of the Deducer GUI for R
Introduction Deducer is a free and open source Graphical User Interface for the R software, one that provides beginners a way to point-and-click their way through analyses. It also integrates into an environment designed to help programmers be more productive. Deducer is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux; there is no server version. This post ...
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A Comparative Review of the BlueSky Statistics GUI for R
Introduction BlueSky Statistics’ desktop version is a free and open source graphical user interface for the R software that focuses on beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. A commercial version is also available which includes technical support and a version for Windows Terminal Servers such as Remote Desktop, or C...
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A Comparative Review of the Rattle GUI for R
Introduction Rattle is a popular free and open source Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the R software, one that focuses on beginners looking to point-and-click their way through data mining tasks. Such tasks are also referred to as machine learning or predictive analytics. Rattle’s name is an acronym for “R Analytical Tool To Learn Eas...
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A Comparative Review of the R Commander GUI for R
Introduction The R Commander is a free and open source user interface for the R software, one that focuses on helping users learn R commands by point-and-clicking their way through analyses. The R Commander is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux; there is no server version. This is one of a series of reviews which aim to help non-programmer...
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BlueSky Statistics 6.04 GUI for R Update
It has been just a few months since I reviewed five free and open-source point-and-click graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to the R language. I plan to keep those reviews up to date as new features are added. BlueSky’s interface would be immediately familiar to anyone who had used SPSS, as its developers model it on that popular software. The Bl...
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Updated Review: jamovi User Interface to R
Last February I reviewed the jamovi menu-based front end to R. I’ve reviewed five more user interfaces since then, and have developed a more comprehensive template to make it easier to compare them all. Now I’m cycling back to jamovi, using that template to write a far more comprehensive review. I’ve added this review to the previous set,...
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Gartner’s 2019 Take on Data Science Software
I’ve just updated The Popularity of Data Science Software to reflect my take on Gartner’s 2019 report, Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. To save you the trouble of digging through all 40+ pages of my report, here’s just the updated section: IT Research Firms IT research firms study software products and corpora...
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Data Science Software Reviews: Forrester vs. Gartner
In my previous post, I discussed Gartner’s reviews of data science software companies. In this post, I show Forrester’s coverage and discuss how radically different it is. As usual, this post is already integrated into my regularly-updated article, The Popularity of Data Science Software. Forrester Research, Inc. is another company that revi...
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