This is very cool. The tutorial (the Wizard Wizard, if you will) was very well done and I feel like the program makes a lot of basic stats analysis very easy and visual. Nice work.
In your opinion how relevant would this be to survey analysis for psych and social science research? Does it cover most of the analysis required or are there shortcomings that, say, SPSS would better fill? I'm not a stats guy, just a programmer, but it would be great to work it into our recommendations for tools for researchers on Mac (shameless plug - http://www.socialsci.com).
Coming from a social science perspective, this tool seems to cover a lot of bases. I haven’t used it for actual research (obviously), so it’s easy for me to overlook shortcomings, but a lot of the important stuff seems to be there. What I didn’t really see (but maybe I missed it) were good tools to edit and clean up data (which often is a lot of tedious work and at least as important as actually calculating the statistical tests) as well as factor and cluster analysis (especially factor analysis is something that is used quite frequently when looking at survey data) – but I think you can do most of the stuff social scientists do with this tool.
I do not think it is a replacement for other tools (SPSS, R) but I do think it’s excellent at what it does. I’m quite impressed, actually. Firing up SPSS is just no fun (also crazy expensive), so I will definitely look into getting this. (R is fun, but for some reason I’m very slow with it.) It’s definitely very accessible.
In your opinion how relevant would this be to survey analysis for psych and social science research? Does it cover most of the analysis required or are there shortcomings that, say, SPSS would better fill? I'm not a stats guy, just a programmer, but it would be great to work it into our recommendations for tools for researchers on Mac (shameless plug - http://www.socialsci.com).