There’s nothing specifically about archaeology in here, so this post will likely to be relevant to researchers in the social sciences in general. I wrote this post to describe why those packages might not be the best choices, and explain what one good alternative might be. It was motivated by my recent observations at the Society of American Archaeology meeting in San Francisco - the largest annual meeting of archaeologists in the world - where I noticed that the great majority of archaeologists use Excel and SPSS. This short post is written for archaeologists who frequently perform common data analysis and visualisation tasks in Excel, SPSS or similar commercial packages. By Ben Marwick, Assistant Professor of Archaeology at the University of Washington.
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