Forecasting made easy with SPSS Statistics
2021-10-29 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
Forecasting with time series analysis has been used in both the public and commercial sectors for decades. Example applications include:

Forecasting passenger numbers at ferry and airport terminals
Estimating inbound call volumes to contact centres
Predicting the load on information networks based on shift patterns and external events
Using weather data to estimate visitor numbers at key attractions

In just one hour we will cover:-

The principles of time series forecasting
Visualising time series
Defining periodicity
Using exponential smoothing methods
Interpreting model fit
Incorporating predictor fields to improve forecasting accuracy
Generating forecasts

Who should attend?

Anyone who is interested in using the data they have to forecast the future

Some background in analytics, statistics or statistical terminology will be useful but is definitely not essential.
Book your place now.

Planning successful analytics projects
2021-11-24 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
It is a rarely acknowledged fact that an uncomfortably large proportion of predictive analytics initiatives fail to make any impact in the real world. 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 including:

Choosing useful project objectives
Insight vs accuracy
Establishing what a successful outcome actually means
Assessing and testing model performance
Managing time and personnel
Examples of effective application deployment
Common causes of failure
Rules for success

Who should attend?
This webinar is for anyone who is interested in exploring how to make better use of predictive analytics in their organisation and wants to ensure that their projects are successful.
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Step beyond spreadsheets with IBM SPSS Statistics
2022-02-03 15:00 - 16:00 UTC
You are invited to join us for this free educational event in which you’ll learn about IBM SPSS Statistics – one of the most highly-regarded analytical software platforms. There’s a lot of talk about big data and predictive analytics at the moment, and IBM SPSS Statistics is at the forefront of this current wave of interest as one of the most powerful yet accessible analytics tools available. If you’ve been thinking about how your organisation could benefit from predictive analytic then this session will show you how easy it is to get started with IBM SPSS Statistics. During the session we will walk you through the three key areas that will enable you to make truly effective use of this powerful analytical software:

Reading and formatting data
Transforming and manipulating data
Effective analysis and deployment of results

During just one hour you will learn:

How you can read data from databases and spreadsheets into IBM SPSS Statistics
How you format the data correctly so that you don’t have to waste time editing the output
How you can easily create filters and banded fields in order to make the most of the data you already have, for example by taking customer ages and creating a new variable of age group
How you can use the SPSS Tables functionality to create publication-quality reports, enabling you to share the results of your analysis throughout your organisation
How to find statistically significant differences in groups and how to interpret the results in order to use them to make meaningful business decisions

Who should attend?
This event is aimed at non-statisticians. This event will be particularly relevant for you if you are considering using SPSS Statistics to go beyond spreadsheet-based analysis or BI/MI reporting, but anyone who’s interested in finding out more about predictive analytics will benefit from attending.
Book your place now.

Automated time series modelling with DataRobot
2022-06-07 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar Jarlath Quinn shows how DataRobot empowers organisations to go beyond simplistic approaches and apply advanced, AI-driven forecasting models to hard problems using Automated Time Series.

Create sophisticated, AI-driven forecasts using advanced algorithms with minimal set-up
Generate forecasts for multiple trends and aggregate series into groups using automated clustering
Automatically pre-process data to handle gaps and create predictors
Assess model accuracy with built-in, automatic time-aware back tests

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Getting started with regression techniques in SPSS
2022-06-07 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
Register now for this free webinar
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the application and value of regression techniques in the IBM SPSS Statistics products. The session will give you a straightforward overview of how simple regression techniques can help your business and how to get started with regression analysis in SPSS. In just 60 minutes you will learn how easy it is to perform simple but powerful regression analysis using IBM SPSS software.
Using regression you can:

Accurately predict the response to your marketing campaigns, both what the overall response volume is likely to be and how likely individual recipients are to respond
Predict what effect a change in advertising spend or price will have on your sales
Make your marketing resources go further and be more effective – by enabling you to rank recipients of marketing campaigns by their likelihood to respond and therefore select the list to optimise response or conversion
Understand how changes you make to one aspect of your marketing might affect others – for example, how the number of tweets you send influences the number of visits to your website, or how the availability of parking influences footfall in your store.
Understand the relative strength of different factors that influence your sales – do your sales depend more strongly on price or on advertising volume?

During the event we will cover:

The principles of prediction
What linear regression is and how it can help you
How to build a simple linear regression model in SPSS
How you can predict response likelihood with logistic regression
How to apply predictive models to your data

Who should attend?

Anyone who has used SPSS in the past and needs a refresher, or is currently using it and would like more confidence in some of the processes.
Anyone who is considering making an investment in statistical software and wants to learn more about what it can do for them.
Anyone who has heard of regression but isn’t sure why they should be using it.
Anyone who’d like to know the difference between the different regression techniques and when to use them.

Some background in analytics, statistics or statistical terminology will be useful but is definitely not essential.
Spaces are limited so book yours today.

Data-driven marketing
2022-06-07 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the value of predictive and advanced analytics in database marketing. You will learn how you can apply predictive analytics to both your outbound and inbound marketing campaigns in order to reduce your costs and increase your response and conversion rates.
We will show you practical examples of how prediction-driven marketing campaigns are developed from scratch. We will cover every stage, from setting up the campaign to integrating predictive analytics with operational systems and reporting platforms to enable effective evaluation, execution and monitoring.
The event will be particularly relevant for you if you are new to predictive analytics or are already doing some basic analytics but want to move beyond using simple business rules or RFM selections towards more sophisticated approaches such as propensity modelling, behaviour segmentation and next-best offers.
During just one hour you will learn:

How you can use IBM SPSS predictive analytics software to prepare and model your marketing data
About practical examples of how other organisations like yours have used predictive analytics to enhance their marketing campaigns
How best to address the challenges and opportunities of outbound (proactive) marketing analytics versus inbound (realtime) decision making
How to use cluster analysis to drive more sophisticated segmentation strategies
How to automatically generate next-best offers to maximise response and revenue from your customers
Practical advice on how to get started with the data you already have

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Predictive analytics in one hour - a no-nonsense guide
2022-11-29 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-06-07 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the value of predictive and advanced analytics. The session gets behind the hype to give you insight into what predictive analytics really is, how it could make a difference to your organisation and how you can get started.
Organisations like yours generally have a lot of data, often of many different types and held in different places, so struggle to make effective use of it. As customer channels grow so does the amount of data you collect, making it even harder to know what has value and how to make use of it. A better understanding of your data, alongside a single view of your customers often leads to a breakthrough in customer insight, which in turn can lead to reduced customer churn, increased lifetime value, more effective cross-selling and up-selling and, ultimately, reduced costs and higher profits. But how can you get there?
There’s a lot of talk at the moment about predictive analytics and how it can help organisations like yours, but it can be difficult to know what’s possible and how to get started. This free one hour session gives you a quick guide to predictive analytics and shows you how you might benefit from using it.
Sign up for Predictive Analytics in One Hour and you will learn:

What predictive analytics is and what it means for your business
How organisations like yours are already using predictive analytics to improve their business
How to get started with analytics – what you need to get your project underway
How to build smarter segments – identifying key groups of people, products and places
How predictive techniques can help you identify people who are likely to act or respond in particular ways

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Data cleaning with SPSS Statistics
2022-11-29 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-16 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
In this free educational webinar Jarlath Quinn shows how clean and prepare data for analysis using standard functionality in SPSS Statistics. Jarlath will demonstrate:

Identify and remove duplicate cases
Flag variables containing excessive missing data
Identify extreme values and anomalous cases
Create rules to check for out-of-range values or illogical relationships
Quickly update and change variable and value labels
Create syntax jobs to automatically correct errors

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Getting started with decision trees with SPSS Statistics
2023-06-07 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the application and value of using decision trees. This 45 minute session will give you a straightforward overview of how decision trees work and how they can be applied to solve a range of business problems.
Using decision trees you can:

Accurately predict who is most likely to respond to your marketing campaigns by generating response propensity scores
Uncover critical relationships between descriptive, transactional and interaction data that enable a deep understanding of customer behaviour
Build visual profiles that reveal the key drivers of customer satisfaction
Deploy the decision tree as a predictive model to estimate the likelihood of key customer events such as subscription renewal, repeat purchase, upgrades or cancellations

During the event you will learn:

The principles of classification and prediction when using decision trees
How to build a simple decision tree models and rule sets
How to interpret and test results
How to apply predictive models to customer/prospect data

Who should attend?

Anyone who has used statistics tools in the past and needs a refresher, or is currently using them and would like a deeper understanding of this area of analytics
Anyone who is interested in entry-level predictive analytics software and wants to learn more about what it can do for them
Anyone who has heard of decision trees but isn’t sure why they should be using them

Some background in analytics, statistics or statistical terminology will be useful but is definitely not essential.
Book your place now.

How to interpret significance tests
2023-06-07 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
What do so called ‘significance tests’ signify? In this webinar Jarlath Quinn will unpack the reasoning and theory associated with p values, null hypotheses and the whole idea of using statistics to carry out ‘tests’.
Subjects covered include:

Calculating and interpreting confidence intervals correctly
How does a Chi Square test actually work?
How to interpret P values
When is significant not significant?

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SPSS Statistics licence options explained
2023-06-29 10:00 - 10:45, 2024-03-21 13:00 - 13:45 (Europe/London)
IBM SPSS Statistics software can be licenced and implemented in many ways. This free webinar will explain what you need to consider to make the right licencing choice for your organisation.
This webinar will be useful for:

Anyone who will be using the software
Procurement – to understand more about cost options
IT – to understand about installation and configuration options

This 45 minute webinar will provide:

An overview of the modules which make up the SPSS statistics package:

Where to find more information
How to decide which modules you will need

The things to consider to find the right licence to match your needs including:

How many people will be using the software
Where the software needs to be installed
How long you will need the software for

Who should attend?
The webinar will be helpful for anyone who is considering SPSS licence options for the first time. It will also be of interest to those who already own SPSS software but whose needs have changed and who need to think about different licence options.
Book your free place here.

An Overview of IBM Watson Studio
2023-09-12 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
In this session we will show you how to gain access to some of the key the analytical capabilities of IBM’s Cloud Pak for Data platform with a focus on Watson Studio.
In just one hour you will discover how to:

Develop Modeler flows to generate predictive models
Work with version-controlled Modeler streams
Uncover the most accurate model using an Auto Ai experiment
Deploy models for batch scoring

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Working with Neural Networks in IBM SPSS Statistics
2023-10-11 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
In this session we will provide an overview and demonstration of the Neural Networks module in SPSS Statistics.
In just one hour you will discover:

How Neural Networks work
Building a basic Neural Network model
Optimising model accuracy by changing network parameters
Saving network models and applying them to new data for scoring

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Automatic Accurate Predictions with Data Robot
2023-11-22 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar we will give you an overview of DataRobot’s leading AI Cloud platform.
In just one hour you will discover:-

How to easily upload data and immediately and start the process of automatically building accurate models
Detecting data issues and evaluating feature importance
Comparing and evaluating models with interactive charts and output
Working with model blueprints
How DataRobot deals with problems of bias and model drift

Book your free place now.

How to interpret significance tests
2024-02-16 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
What do so called ‘significance tests’ signify? In this webinar Jarlath Quinn will unpack the reasoning and theory associated with p values, null hypotheses and the whole idea of using statistics to carry out ‘tests’.
Subjects covered include:

Calculating and interpreting confidence intervals correctly
How does a Chi Square test actually work?
How to interpret P values
When is significant not significant?

Book your free place now.

Tenant satisfaction analysis with SPSS
2024-03-01 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar, Jarlath Quinn will look at how analysts and researchers can use SPSS Statistics to interrogate Tenant Satisfaction data. In particular Jarlath will explore how to:

Create new fields and filters in survey data
Explore relationships between rating scales and demographic variables
Carry out significance testing and correlation analysis
Calculate 95% Confidence Intervals
Visualise relationships between different measures of satisfaction
Record data preparation and analysis tasks in syntax for re-use on subsequent surveys

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Performing Bayesian analyses in SPSS
2024-06-06 15:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-09 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar Jarlath Quinn explores Bayesian approaches to statistical analysis and shows how to perform and interpret a Bayesian tests in SPSS.
Content includes:

The historical and theoretical context of the classical ‘Frequentist’ statistical approach and its Bayesian counterpart
The concept of Prior Probabilities and how these are utilised in Bayes Theorem
Credible intervals and the use of Bayes Factor as an alternative to P values
How to perform a Bayesian Analysis in SPSS Statistics and how to interpret the output

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Model building for optimisation: improving efficiency and profitability
2025-02-11 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
Presenters – Robert Cordina from Funis Consulting & John McConnell from Smart Vision
In this 60 minute webinar our two presenters, both veterans of advanced analytics, modelling and optimisation, will provide an overview of optimisation theory and the different types of optimisation that can be deployed to solve complex business problems, providing sample use cases for each approach. You will see examples of models for optimisation of cost and time parameters based on real life examples.
You will learn, using pre built examples, how optimisation can remove the time consuming and costly trial and error method that is often the approach taken when tackling multi faceted problems that many businesses face.
The material covered will also provide a useful and practical overview of the technology platforms that are available to build mathematical models for optimisation and how models can be packaged with a custom user interface to deliver an optimisation solution that will fit your specific challenge.
This webinar is designed for anyone, involved in business operations and business processes where process efficiency, and operational profitability is paramount. Optimisation can be put to work in a wide array of sectors and industries where complex operations rely on a range of inputs which can impact efficiency, product quality and ultimately profitability, for example:

Food production and product development
Fast moving consumer goods production
Manufacturing
Broadcast media which rely on advertising revenue from ad placement
Optimised scheduling of staff within complex rota systems
Logistics
Optimisation of dynamic demand-based pricing

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SPSS Statistics licence options for NHS organisations
2025-07-10 10:00 - 10:45 (Europe/London)
IBM SPSS Statistics software can be licensed and implemented in many ways. This free webinar, run in conjunction with IBM, will explain what you need to consider to make the right licensing choice for your NHS organisation.
This webinar will be useful for:

Anyone who will be using the software
Procurement – to understand more about cost options
IT – to understand about installation and configuration options

This 45 minute webinar will provide:

An overview of the modules which make up the SPSS statistics package:

Where to find more information
How to decide which modules you will need

The things to consider to find the right licence to match your needs including:

How many people will be using the software
Where the software needs to be installed
How long you will need the software for

Who should attend?
The webinar will be helpful for anyone who is considering SPSS licence options for the first time. It will also be of interest to those who already own SPSS software but whose needs have changed and who need to think about different licence options.
Book your free place here.

Getting started with regression techniques in SPSS Statistics
2025-09-03 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Register now for this free webinar
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the application and value of regression techniques in the IBM SPSS Statistics products. The session will give you a straightforward overview of how simple regression techniques can help your business and how to get started with regression analysis in SPSS. In just one hour you will learn how easy it is to perform simple but powerful regression analysis using IBM SPSS software.
Using regression you can:

Accurately predict the response to your marketing campaigns, both what the overall response volume is likely to be and how likely individual recipients are to respond
Predict what effect a change in advertising spend or price will have on your sales
Make your marketing resources go further and be more effective – by enabling you to rank recipients of marketing campaigns by their likelihood to respond and therefore select the list to optimise response or conversion
Understand how changes you make to one aspect of your marketing might affect others – for example, how the number of tweets you send influences the number of visits to your website, or how the availability of parking influences footfall in your store.
Understand the relative strength of different factors that influence your sales – do your sales depend more strongly on price or on advertising volume?

During the event we will cover:

The principles of prediction
What linear regression is and how it can help you
How to build a simple linear regression model in SPSS
How you can predict response likelihood with logistic regression
How to apply predictive models to your data

Who should attend?

Anyone who has used SPSS in the past and needs a refresher, or is currently using it and would like more confidence in some of the processes.
Anyone who is considering making an investment in statistical software and wants to learn more about what it can do for them.
Anyone who has heard of regression but isn’t sure why they should be using it.
Anyone who’d like to know the difference between the different regression techniques and when to use them.

Some background in analytics, statistics or statistical terminology will be useful but is definitely not essential.
Spaces are limited so book yours today.

Getting started with SPSS Statistics
2025-09-09 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
You are invited to join us for this free educational event in which you’ll learn about IBM SPSS Statistics – one of the most highly-regarded analytical software platforms. There’s a lot of talk about big data and predictive analytics at the moment, and IBM SPSS Statistics is at the forefront of this current wave of interest as one of the most powerful yet accessible analytics tools available. If you’ve been thinking about how your organisation could benefit from predictive analytics then this session will show you how easy it is to get started with IBM SPSS Statistics. During the session we will walk you through the three key areas that will enable you to make truly effective use of this powerful analytical software:

Reading and formatting data
Transforming and manipulating data
Effective analysis and deployment of results

During just one hour you will learn:

How you can read data from databases and spreadsheets into IBM SPSS Statistics
How you format the data correctly so that you don’t have to waste time editing the output
How you can easily create filters and banded fields in order to make the most of the data you already have, for example by taking customer ages and creating a new variable of age group
How you can use the SPSS Tables functionality to create publication-quality reports, enabling you to share the results of your analysis throughout your organisation
How to find statistically significant differences in groups and how to interpret the results in order to use them to make meaningful business decisions

Who should attend?
This event is aimed at non-statisticians. This event will be particularly relevant for you if you are considering using SPSS Statistics to go beyond spreadsheet-based analysis or BI/MI reporting, but anyone who’s interested in finding out more about predictive analytics will benefit from attending.
Book your free place here.

Getting started with SPSS Statistics
2025-10-16 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
You are invited to join us for this free educational event in which you’ll learn about IBM SPSS Statistics – one of the most highly-regarded analytical software platforms. There’s a lot of talk about big data and predictive analytics at the moment, and IBM SPSS Statistics is at the forefront of this current wave of interest as one of the most powerful yet accessible analytics tools available. If you’ve been thinking about how your organisation could benefit from predictive analytics then this session will show you how easy it is to get started with IBM SPSS Statistics. During the session we will walk you through the three key areas that will enable you to make truly effective use of this powerful analytical software:

Reading and formatting data
Transforming and manipulating data
Effective analysis and deployment of results

During just one hour you will learn:

How you can read data from databases and spreadsheets into IBM SPSS Statistics
How you format the data correctly so that you don’t have to waste time editing the output
How you can easily create filters and banded fields in order to make the most of the data you already have, for example by taking customer ages and creating a new variable of age group
How you can use the SPSS Tables functionality to create publication-quality reports, enabling you to share the results of your analysis throughout your organisation
How to find statistically significant differences in groups and how to interpret the results in order to use them to make meaningful business decisions

Who should attend?
This event is aimed at non-statisticians. This event will be particularly relevant for you if you are considering using SPSS Statistics to go beyond spreadsheet-based analysis or BI/MI reporting, but anyone who’s interested in finding out more about predictive analytics will benefit from attending.
Book your place now.

Data science in one hour
2025-11-18 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
You are invited to join us for this free educational event focusing on the value of data science and advanced analytics. The session gets behind the hype to explain what data science really is, how it could make a difference to your organisation.
Organisations like yours often have a lot of data, of many different types and held in different places and so struggle to make effective use of it. Data science enables organisations to make informed, data-driven decisions and predict outcomes, as well as manage risk and uncover insights. However, for many, it can be difficult to know what’s possible and how to get started. This free one-hour session gives you a quick guide to data science and shows how you might benefit from it.
Sign up for Data Science in an hour and you will learn:

What data science is and what it means for your business
How organisations like yours are already using data science to improve their business
How to get started with advanced analytics – what you need to get your initiative underway
How predictive techniques can help you identify people who are likely to act or respond in particular ways
How data science models are implemented to make a real difference

Book your free place now.

Using SPSS in healthcare settings
2025-12-02 10:00 - 11:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar, Jarlath Quinn will look at how analysts and researchers can address a host of healthcare-related applications in SPSS Statistics. The session will include demonstrations of a number of analytical techniques such as those Patient Satisfaction surveys and clinical outcomes research. In particular the session will explore:

Looking at Correlations
Visualising multivariate relationships in data
Methods for estimating risk
Performing Survival Analysis

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Regression techniques for healthcare applications
2025-12-02 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar Jarlath Quinn will explore the usage of Linear Regression and Logistic Regression in Healthcare applications.
Using IBM SPSS Statistics, Jarlath will look at:

Exploring relationships between scale variables with correlations
Introducing Simple Linear Regression
Working with Multiple Linear Regression to model cancer incidence in populations
Identifying problems in Linear Regression models
Introducing Logistic Regression
Working with Logistic Regression to model low birthweight

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Using SPSS for marketing applications
2025-12-02 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
In this webinar we will show you how you can use IBM’s powerful data analytics tool SPSS Statistics to help with a series of classic direct marketing challenges such as identifying which creatives or offers perform significantly better, finding the most valuable customers, uncovering useful segments, and predicting customer behaviour.
In just one hour we will show you how you can leverage SPSS to make smarter, data-driven marketing decisions. In particular, we’ll cover four powerful techniques that can transform how you understand and engage with your customers:

Performing A/B Testing with Significance Tests – Learn how to set up and analyse experiments to optimise your marketing strategies.
RFM Analysis – Discover how to identify your most valuable customers by evaluating recency, frequency, and monetary value.
Cluster Analysis – Uncover hidden customer segments to tailor more personalised campaigns.
Decision Trees – Profile and predict customer behaviour to improve targeting and retention.

Who should attend?
This webinar is suitable for anyone who’d like to learn more about how SPSS Statistics can help you unlock the information hidden in your existing data to drive better decision making.
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