Education - Computational Tools

SPSS Cheat Sheet

A list of common operations that we do as social scientists and how to do them using SPSS’s point-and-click interface.

Stata Cheat Sheet

A list of common operations that we do as social scientists and how to do them using Stata code.

Introduction to R for Stata Users

This tutorial was created with Stata users in mind, introducing the basics of R in such a way that connects the concepts with things that Stata users already know.

R Tutorials (for non-programmers)

I have developed a (growing) series of tutorials for my own students on R that may be useful to others. Topics include: An Introduction to R; Summaries and Bivariate Statistics; Linear Regression; Logistic Regression; Multilevel Models; and Fixed Effects.

Making R Graphs, For People Who Don’t Want To Learn R

A guide on creating graphs in R if you don’t know R and know Stata (or another statistical programming language). R arguably has some of the best graphics capabilities for those of us who do data analysis, but if you really don’t want to have to learn another language just to make graphs, here’s something that might help. Graphs here use the ggplot2 package, by Hadley Wickam.

R and Stata Side-by-Side

Benjamin Skinner and I created this document in 2013 as a supplement to other work we were doing to help people translate between work in Stata and work in R. This document contains equivalent Stata and R code side-by-side to show the similarities and differences between the two powerful programs.