JASP vs. Jamovi 2024 | JASP and Jamovi NECK AND NECK!

In this video, I update my analysis of playing and making tutorial videos for JASP & jamovi as a three years later retrospective of my videos from July 2021 (find it here: • JASP vs. Jamovi 2021 |... ) and June 2020 (find it here: • JASP vs. Jamovi 2020 |... ).
Jamovi, from my perspective, only has a small edge after a few years of development. I still think JASP is stronger for Bayesians, but for an undergrad not thinking stats is good or useful, jamovi makes it easier. However, JASP now has native data editing, which brings it on par with jamovi. In fact, I both rate these programs 9/10 these days, but jamovi only eeks out JASP because my teaching materials are currently based on it.
Let me know in the comments below if I missed something or want me to expand on a given feature of either program! Or let me know I'm wrong or overlooked something crucial about JASP!
Here's a link to the JASP tutorial playlist: • JASP Tutorials
Here's a link to the jamovi tutorial playlist: • Jamovi Tutorials
These are the websites for each program, with easy download links, for most major OSes (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
JASP Stats: jasp-stats.org/
Jamovi: www.jamovi.org/
Find me on the web: swanpsych.com
Socials: linktr.ee/alexbswan

[@jdmresearch]

Nice comparison! What do you think about the machine learning module in JASP? And, is there anything similar in Jamovi?

[@AlexanderSwan]

I don’t do machine learning so I have not looked at either app’s module on that, sorry! Thanks for taking a look :)

[@StatisticsSupreme]

Love the detailed comparison. You will be impressed with JASP 0.19 I think. It will hit us in 1 or 2 months with massive improvements to recoding etc. I agree with your stance of a tie currently. Both programs have the same number of strong points and weaknesses. The biggest weakness with jamovi I see is, that it does not allow to resort or duplicate analyses and the lack of integrated help files. So I am curious: How do you manage these points?

[@AlexanderSwan]

Very much looking forward to that! For my purposes, resorting analyses isn’t a game changer or breaker. I’ll have to remind myself about the duplication of analyses, because I’m remembering something but my memory might be conflating functionality. If I’m misremembering, I’m not entirely sure it would be a big deal to me either, again a minor point.
The help files are huge and some do need to be added. Jamovi does rely on external help from useful others (such as myself), which can be a problem if a user doesn’t know where to look, like Learning Stats with Jamovi.
I still give Jamovi the edge in the tie, as I say in the video, because my course are built on its functionality. I also think Jamovi is slightly more intuitive in its GUI and its expansion with modules and R packages.

[@StatisticsSupreme]

@@AlexanderSwan yeah, the gui is a bit more explicit. With "learning statistics with jamovi" you mean the book by navarro? Thats a good one, yes, I also use the jasp version of that sometimes (but that one is now a bit outdated, 2019).