Category Archives: statistics      • Ruby for text processing
and miscellaneous scripting;   • Ruby on Rails/JavaScript for
web development;   • MATLAB for neuroimaging data analysis;   •
R for statistical analysis;   • R for plotting and
visualization;   • Occasional excursions into other
languages/environments for other stuff.  In 2013, my toolbox
looks like this:    • Python for text processing and
miscellaneous scripting;   • Python (NumPy/SciPy) for numerical
computing;   • Python (scikit-learn) for machine learning;   •
Excursions into other languages have dropped markedly.  You may
notice a theme here.               You could be forgiven for
thinking that academic psychologists have all suddenly turned
into professional whistleblowers. Everywhere you look,
interesting new papers are cropping up purporting to describe
this or that common-yet-shady methodological practice, and
telling us what we can collectively do to solve the problem and
improve the quality of the published literature. In just the
last