Publications by Bob Muenchen
Data Science Software Used in Journals: Stat Packages Declining (including R), AI/ML Software Growing
In my neverending quest to track The Popularity of Data Science Software, it’s time to update the section on Scholarly Articles. The rapid growth of R could not go on forever and, as you’ll see below, its use actually declined over the last year. Scholarly Articles Scholarly articles provide a rich source of information about data science too...
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A Comparative Review of the JASP Statistical Software
Introduction JASP is a free and open source statistics package that targets beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. This article is one of a series of reviews which aim to help non-programmers choose the Graphical User Interface (GUI) for R, which best meets their needs. Most of these reviews also include cursory descri...
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Comparing Point-and-Click Front Ends for R
Now that I’ve completed seven detailed reviews of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for R, let’s compare them. It’s easy enough to count their features and plot them, so let’s start there. I’m basing the counts on the number of menu items in each category. That’s not too hard to get, but it’s far from perfect. Some software has fewer...
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Data Science Jobs Report 2019: Python Way Up, Tensorflow Growing Rapidly, R Use Double SAS
In my ongoing quest to track The Popularity of Data Science Software, I’ve just updated my analysis of the job market. To save you from reading the entire tome, I’m reproducing that section here. Job Advertisements One of the best ways to measure the popularity or market share of software for data science is to count the number of job adverti...
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New Versions of R GUIs: BlueSky, JASP, jamovi
It has been only two months since I summarized my reviews of point-and-click front ends for R, and it’s already out of date! I have converted that post into a regularly-updated article and added a plot of total features, which I repeat below. It shows the total number of features in each package, including the latest versions of BlueSky Statist...
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Is Scholarly Use of R Use Beating SPSS Already?
by Bob Muenchen & Sean Mackinnon One of us (Muenchen) has been tracking The Popularity of Data Science Software using a variety of different approaches. One approach is to use Google Scholar to count the number of scholarly articles found each year for each software. He chose Google Scholar since it searches “across many disciplines and sourc...
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A Comparative Review of the R AnalyticFlow GUI for R
Introduction R AnalyticFlow (RAF) is a free and open source graphical user interface (GUI) for the R language that focuses on beginners looking to point-and-click their way through analyses. What sets it apart from the other half-dozen GUIs for R is that it uses a flowchart-like workflow diagram to control the analysis instead of only menus. In...
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Biomedical Data Science Textbook Available
By Bob Hoyt & Bob Muenchen Data science is being used in many ways to improve healthcare and reduce costs. We have written a textbook, Introduction to Biomedical Data Science, to help healthcare professionals understand the topic and to work more effectively with data scientists. The textbook content and data exercises do not require programming ...
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Updates to R GUIs: BlueSky, jamovi, JASP, & RKWard
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for the R language help beginners get started learning R, help non-programmers get their work done, and help teams of programmers and non-programmers work together by turning code into menus and dialog boxes. There has been quite a lot of progress on R GUIs since my last post on this topic. Below I describe some o...
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R GUI Update: BlueSky User’s Guide, New Features
The BlueSky Statistics graphical user interface (GUI) for the R language has added quite a few new features (described below). I’m also working on a BlueSky User’s Guide, a draft of which you can read about and download here. Although I’m spending a lot of time on BlueSky, I still plan to be as obsessive as ever about reviewing all (or near...
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