If you’re currently using spreadsheet tools such as Excel for your analytics then this webinar will give you an insight into how dedicated analytics tools like IBM SPSS can help you to take your analytics to the next level.
This webinar provides an introduction to how charities can use predictive analytics and data mining in order to identify their most profitable donors and maximise donor value.
This webinar shows you how to create professional analytical reports, use an extensive portfolio of professional and innovative visualizations, and benefit from of data-manipulation procedures.
You will also learn to use a dedicated, flexible reporting application to consolidate and display multiple outputs and share reports across the organisation including via web portals.
Creating custom procedures can dramatically increase your productivity in SPSS and the good news. This webinar shows how you don’t need to be an expert user or know how to ‘code’ in order achieve this.
View this webinar to see how to use Watson Studio Desktop’s powerful visual analytics to explore your data, clean and prepare data files in readiness for predictive analytics. Learn how to build and assess predictive models and to test the accuracy of your predictions and apply them to new data.
In this webinar we will draw on the hard-won experiences of industry professionals to examine precisely what drives success or failure in predictive analytics. Using the CRISP-DM framework, the session will focus on the practical aspects of planning for successful outcomes.
Using IBM SPSS Modeler, this webinar will demonstrate methods to improve the accuracy of predictive models. It should be noted that most of these approaches are not unique to the SPSS Modeler application and may have relevance for people working with alternative software packages.
It can cost up to six times more to get a new customer than it does to keep one that you already have. This webinar shows you how you can use predictive analytics techniques and the data that you already hold to improve customer retention rates in your organisation.
Free text data is often thought to be difficult or time-consuming to analyse, so much so that in many organisations this kind of data is collected but then not really effectively analysed at all. This session is designed to show you how easy it is to analyse this kind of data and get real value from the research you’re doing.
Decision trees are used extensively and widely within predictive analytics. In this webinar we discuss how decision trees can be used to build profiles of customers, employees and clients; find key behavioural segments and generate predictive models. You’ll learn how to generate decision trees in SPSS and how to interpret your results.
When you’re in the thick of the analysis phase of a data mining or predictive analytics project it’s easy to forget about how you’re actually going to deploy your model, but deployment is really critical to the success of any project. In this webinar we examine different methods for effectively deploying the result of your modelling within your organisation.
This webinar show you how you can use SPSS Modeler to harness the power of any unstructured data you have in your organisation, from customer feedback forms through to social media posts.
This webinar provides a brief introduction to the core functionality of IBM SPSS Statistics – ideal for anyone who is considering investing in SPSS Statistics or has already got it but isn’t sure that they’re making the most of it. This webinar helps you get up and running quickly and shows you some of the power of SPSS.
This webinar gives an introduction to some of the ways in which SPSS Modeler can help organisations to make sense of their customer survey and feedback data, including free text fields and other unstructured data.
This webinar presents different applications of predictive analytics for database marketers. The aim is to help organisations understand how they can use the information in their marketing database to more effectively acquire new customers as well as to retain those they already have and maximise their value to the organisation.
This webinar provides an introduction to the CRISP-DM methodology and discussed how best to manage each stage of the process in order to maximise your chances of success.
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.
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.
SPSS Modeler is a robust data science software for professional analysts and data scientists. The software scales from supporting line-of-business predictive analysis to enterprise-scale implementation.Consisting of IBM SPSS Modeler Desktop 18.3 and IBM SPSS Modeler Server 18.3, SPSS Modeler delivers a robust predictive analytics solution for a holistic approach to predictive analytics. It brings predictive intelligence to decisions made by individuals, …
What’s new in SPSS version 27? Correlations output now includes the ability to show only the lower triangle of values, suppress the diagonal coefficients and calculate confidence intervals. One-Sample, Independent-Samples and Paired-SamplesProportionTests have been added to the base system. McDonald’sOmega has been added to the suite of reliability analysis procedures. RestorePoint functionality that saves data …
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In my most recent blog post I wrote about the benefits and opportunities that cloud computing brings to data science projects and reciprocally, how data science projects provide a great way to demonstrate the value of cloud computing. In this post I want to discuss the cloud computing skills challenge and provide some advice on …
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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 that existing users can look forward to. Meta-analysis Meta-analysis is a well-established analytical approach that combines the results from a range of studies with a view to estimating the effect size of the treatment in question. …
What is unstructured data? The data you have access to within your organisation can be broadly sorted into two categories: structured and unstructured. Structured data is quantitative data that can be organised into a format that can neatly be fitted into the fields and columns of relational databases or spreadsheets. Examples might include things like …
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We are living through a golden age of technological innovation and revolution. Whether it’s the blending of real time data, technical software and hardware instrumentation to deliver efficient, user friendly and zero carbon buildings or the combination of data, artificial intelligence algorithms and automotive technology to enable semi-autonomous vehicles, we are witnessing rapid expansion of …
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How COVID-19 is changing the nature of advanced analytics We’re over a year into the COVID-19 pandemic now and it seems that everyone is an amateur statistics expert. Concepts like the R number, exponential growth and, most recently, probability and assessment of risk that used to be really only for discussion amongst epidemiologists and statisticians …
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One of the wonderful things about IBM SPSS Statistics is its ubiquity. I realise that it is not a household name in the way that big consumer brands are, but if you have ever had the need to analyse data, either professionally, in an academic context or in the public realm, the chances are that …
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Correlation is a term that we employ in everyday speech to denote things that appear to have a mutual relationship. In the world of analytics correlations are specific values that are calculated in order quantify the relationships between variables. This kind of analysis is powerful because it allows us measure the association between factors such as …
The chi-squared test is used to examine differences with between fields with different categories and to determine whether those differences are significant.
The real world, whether it be the physical world, for example machines, or the natural world, for example human and animal behaviour, is very complex with many factors, some unknown, determining their behaviour and responses to interventions. Even if every contributory factor to a phenomenon is known, it is unrealistic to expect that the unique …
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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 characteristics of your data and the analytics outcomes that you’re hoping for. If you don’t choose the right tests then the results you generate can be meaningless and this can lead to business decisions being …
From time to time we come across IBM SPSS Statistics or Modeler customers who need to install the product on a computer without internet access, or who have a firewall that is preventing the License Activation Wizard from working. It is still possible to install your software in this situation – simply follow the instructions …
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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. How your organisation invests in, licenses and implements these tools will depend on its requirements. This page explains and compares the options, or you can watch the quick video guide below. Licence length or term …
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In order for Smart Vision Europe Ltd to be able to assist you with the transfer of an SPSS license from one computer to another you will need to be able to demonstrate one of the following: Have an up to date support and maintenance contract with Smart Vision Europe Ltd To have had a …
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You can easily change language from English to another language of your choice directly within SPSS Statistics. This can be done in the Edit menu by selecting ‘options’ and then ‘language’. You can change the language of three different aspects of SPSS – your output, the user interface and the character encoding for data and …
If you opt for a concurrent user license then you can install SPSS on as many machines as you like, as long as it is only ever used by one person at a time. To control this you would install SPSS License Manager. The license manager is a separate application which will need to be …
When your licence comes to an end you will need to buy a licences, you do not need to reinstall the software you simply need to update your license activation code. We will supply you with a new code at the point at which you buy the new software licence. To update it, simply follow …
After you’ve purchased SPSS software from us you’ll be able to download it from our website. After your purchase you will receive the following email containing your username and a link to set up your password. Clicking the link will open your web browser to the following page allowing you to set a personal password. …
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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 syntax command that can give you this information quickly and easily. Our video guide shows you how, or check out the written instructions below. Checking which modules are installed First, open a new syntax window …
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How can a data scientist access training in 2021? 3 trends things to look out for… I have been involved in the delivery and implementation of data science software applications, data science projects and solutions that have advanced and predictive analytics at their core, in one form or another, for almost 30 years. Of course, …
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Lorna: Can you just start off by telling me a little bit about yourself, what your background is and how you came to be where you are now? Diana: I’m a psychologist. I did psychology A-Level. That’s where it all started. Then I did an undergraduate course in psychology in London. With psychology, it’s 50% …
A fascinating recent report by MIT Sloan in collaboration with BCG has confirmed what many industry insiders have known for years: only a small minority of companies manage to make their initial AI projects succeed. Based on global survey of more than 3,000 managers and scholars in 29 industries, the report’s authors discovered that only …
In this series of ‘eat your greens‘ posts looking at core statistical concepts in more detail, we have looked closely at what a test of statistical significance actually is. In particular, we have focused on how to interpret the statistical probability value that various tests generate. This value, often labelled ‘P=’, ‘Prob’ or ‘Sig.’ in …
IBM have released a new update to SPSS v27. Interestingly, this is a ‘dot’ release that contains a number of useful functional improvements rather than the usual bug fixes or third-party compatibility enhancements. The new procedures include three additional statistical tests for comparing differences in proportions. These procedures were introduced as syntax only commands in …
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.
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.
A worked example of a classic inferential statistical procedure: the independent samples t-test.
This is the latest in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at core statistical concepts that are often misunderstood or misapplied. In everyday speech the term ‘correlation’ refers to a mutual connection or relationship between two things. In statistics correlations are specific measures or values that attempt to quantify the …
Spreadsheets have been much in the news over the last couple of days in the UK, and not for good reasons. It looks as though Excel’s limit on the number of rows of data possible in a spreadsheet has led to Public Health England misplacing more than 16,000 Covid test results. The implications of this …
This is the fifth post in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at some of the core concepts of statistics and analytics that, in our experience, are frequently misunderstood or misapplied. In this post we’ll look in more depth at the concept of the standard error and confidence intervals. In …
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This is the fourth post in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at some of the core concepts of statistics and analytics that, in our experience, are frequently misunderstood or misapplied. In this post we’ll look in more depth at the concept of the normal distribution. One of the first …
