Around 20% of students do not complete their studies, making retention a big concern for all universities and HEIs. Watch this webinar to understand which student characteristics and behaviours most influence the chances of them remaining engaged with their course.
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This webinar gives a brief introduction to predictive analytics, how it differs from business intelligence, and suggests ways in which organisations can get started with predictive analytics quickly and easily.
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What’s new in SPSS version 27? Correlations output now includes the ability to show only the lower triangle of values,
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IBM is about to release the latest version of SPSS Statistics. Here’s a summary of some of the new enhancements
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Correlation is a term that we employ in everyday speech to denote things that appear to have a mutual relationship.
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The chi-squared test is used to examine differences with between fields with different categories and to determine whether those differences are significant.
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The real world, whether it be the physical world, for example machines, or the natural world, for example human and
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When you’re conducting any kind of statistical analysis, it’s vital that you select the correct tests to perform, given the
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From time to time we come across IBM SPSS Statistics or Modeler customers who need to install the product on
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IBM SPSS Advanced Analytical Products, including IBM SPSS Statistics and IBM SPSS Modeler, can be implemented and licensed in different ways.
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In order for Smart Vision Europe Ltd to be able to assist you with the transfer of an SPSS license
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You can easily change language from English to another language of your choice directly within SPSS Statistics. This can be
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When your licence comes to an end you will need to buy a licences, you do not need to reinstall
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After you’ve purchased SPSS software from us you’ll be able to download it from our website. After your purchase you
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Sometimes it can be useful to know which SPSS modules you have installed and are licensed for. There’s a simple
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In these videos Jarlath Quinn introduces the concept of Structural Equation Modelling with SPSS AMOS. In the first video Jarlath uses the example of creating a simple linear model to illustrate the functionality in the AMOS interface.
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In these videos Jarlath Quinn introduces the concept of Structural Equation Modelling with SPSS AMOS. In the second video Jarlath shows how to perform a basic Confirmatory Factor Analysis in AMOS.
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Bootstrap aggregation, also called bagging, is a random ensemble method designed to increase the stability and accuracy of models. It involves creating a series of models from the same training data set by randomly sampling with replacement the data.
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Boosting is another ensemble model-building method that was designed to help develop strong classification models from weak classifiers. Boosting methods focus on error (or misclassifications) that occur in prediction.
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Feature Engineering is really just a fancy term for creating new data. Very often we can help an algorithm build better models by preparing the input data in a way that allows it to detect a clearer signal in the often noisy data. In machine learning variables are often referred to as ‘features’, so feature engineering refers to the transformation of variables or the creation of new ones.
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Ensemble modelling refers to the practice of combining the predictions of separate models on the old principle that “two heads are better than one”. Ensemble methods can be particularly effective when combining models that have been created using completely different algorithms.
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The idea of meta modelling is to build a predictive model using the predictions or scores generated by another model. By adding the predictive scores generated by an initial modelling algorithm to an existing pool of predictor fields, a second algorithm can then exploit these scores in to build a final more accurate model.
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Split models or split population modelling is another technique that allows the user to build multiple models which can then be combined to create a single prediction. The idea with split modelling is that if the data represent different populations or contain separate groups that behave in very different ways, assuming that a single model can explain all the inherent variability across these distinct populations might be unreasonable.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn takes a first look at SPSS Modeler v18.2 and demonstrates some of the new functionality that’s included within this release.
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We’re often asked how you can change the appearance of the tables that SPSS generates as output. In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates two different ways to do this, either by choosing a different table look in the edit / options function, or by editing the table properties directly yourself.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to merge data files within SPSS Statistics using each of the two main methods, either adding cases (combining files with the same fields but additional rows) or adding variables (combining files by joining variables to a target file using something like an ID field as a ‘keyed variable’).
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SPSS users often want to be able to create grouped or banded data from continuous fields such as, for example, creating age groups or income bands from continuous fields. In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to use the visual binning procedure within SPSS Statistics to do this.
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Recoding your data means changing the values of a variable so that they represent something else. Within SPSS Statistics there is more than one type of recode that can be performed.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to use the functions within the explore command in SPSS Statistics to test for normality.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to work with date and time variables in SPSS using the SPSS date and time wizard.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to use SPSS Statistics to define data filters in order to select particular cases for analysis. This can be done either to create a temporary selection or to create a permanent new file with only a subsection of cases included within it.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to reverse the values of a rating scale (such as an agreement scale or a satisfaction scale) in SPSS Statistics, so that the highest value becomes the lowest value and vice versa.
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SPSS users often want to know how they can combine variables together. In this video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to use the compute procedure to calculate the mean of a number of variables to create one combined variable, and also how to use the count values procedure to count how many times a particular value occurs across a series of variables in order to create an overall count.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn introduces the popular TURF analysis technique and demonstrates how to apply it in IBM SPSS Statistics. TURF analysis is used in many industries to find the optimal sub-group of options from a wider portfolio in order to maximise their appeal to an audience or market.
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In this video Jarlath Quinn explains what cluster analysis is, how it is applied in the real world and how easy it is create your own cluster analysis models in SPSS Statistics.
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Sometimes you may have problems with your data issues not related so much to the values of the data but to the fields themselves, such as awkward field names. The filter node is a really useful tool that offers a bunch of tricks for dealing with awkward fields.
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In this video we explore variable sets – a procedure in SPSS that allows you to generate subsets of variables or fields for display within dialogue boxes and in the data editor itself.
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Used correctly, the generate menu offers analysts some substantial time saving benefits. Watch this video to learn more about how you can use the generate menu effectively.
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SPSS enables quite a high level of customisation so you can set up the software in a way that enables you to be a lot more productive, however many people are unaware of just how powerful these customisation options are. In this video we explore the options edit menu.
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The data audit node is a powerful tool you can use to help understand the shape and structure of your data before your analysis begins. You can also make some decisions here regarding how you might want to clean up your data, for example by dealing with missing values or extremes and outliers.
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In part one of this video series Jarlath Quinn explains how operational analytics works, what data sources may be utilised and introduces the example case study that forms the basis of the subsequent videos in the series.
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In part two of our predictive operational analytics video series, Jarlath Quinn introduces the IBM SPSS Modeler Software before showing how to explore the example data from the case study and carry out text analytics of engineer logs to categorise the information and create key fields for further analysis.
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In part 3 of this predictive operational analytics guide Jarlath uses the results from the previous analysis stage to show how to build and assess a predictive model that identifies whether or not a part replacement will be required during a maintenance visit.
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In this final part of our predictive operational analytics video series Jarlath shows how we can use the predictive technology to go further by predicting the actual outcome of the visit including which part is likely to require replacement.
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Jarlath provides a brief history of the concept of net promoter score before introducing the case study whereby Predictive Promoter was applied to data from the guests of a major hotel chain.
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In this video Jarlath shows how to automatically produce a model that predicts customer’s recommendation scores based upon transactional and operational data.
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In this video Jarlath shows how easy it is to take a previously built model that has been generated based on known outcomes and apply it to customer data where the outcome is not known.
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In this final part of our predictive promoter video series, Jarlath Quinn tackles the project’s most ambitious task: mining the open-ended guest comments to uncover important insights. Here you can discover how we can use text analytics to extract a series of concepts and sentiments from customer comments in order to categorise the guests’ responses.
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In this short video Jarlath Quinn demonstrates how to use the powerful simulation tools within IBM SPSS Modeler to perform What If analysis (also known as ‘Scenario Planning’). What if analysis allows business-focused analysts to go beyond simple predictive modelling to evaluate the impact of different choices and scenarios on predicted outcomes.
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This video shows you how organisations with substantial capital assets can use IBM SPSS Modeler to predict when asset failure is most likely. Predicting asset failure can prevent problems before they happen and enables organisations to save money, reduce asset downtime and increase efficiency.
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