Comments on: Crowd sourced open source alternatives to SPSS http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/11/09/crowd-sourced-open-source-alternatives-to-spss/ Cetis blog Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 By: Adam http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/2011/11/09/crowd-sourced-open-source-alternatives-to-spss/#comment-2827 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:43:27 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/sheilamacneill/?p=1210#comment-2827 Hi Sheila –
Having used R for a number of text and data mining tasks, I can confirm that there IS a learning curve unless you are following well-beaten paths, where there are examples to appropriate. Beyond that, you really need to be able to face programming (which I can but R still has the capacity to “do my head in”).

I’ve heard mention of an O’Reilly book dealing with open source stats/data-science tools, but I’ve no direct experience. I think Tony Hirst mentioed it on his blog but I’m too lazy to go and look.

In the future, I hope there will be more institutional support for people like the WORDLE crowd; this seems like one aspect of digital literacy that is coming down the road quite fast.

Cheers, Adam

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