I'm also curious to know the answer to this question.    Just anecdotally I'd guess 1 out of every 12 large k-12 districts use it, but that's a pretty niche market.

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Original Message:
Sent: Fri August 02, 2024 03:50 PM
From: Roger Fiedler
Subject: SPSS Usage/Market Share?

Recently, I was in contact with those working with baseball statistics using publicly-available data through Retrosheet. When I suggested that SPSS might be a very useful tool for analyzing such data (14+ million records!), I received some interesting feedback:

"I've been employed in several academic institutions for a few decades now and know exactly zero people who use SPSS.

By sheer volume, R+tidyverse or Python+pandas (or one of the other edgier data frame libraries) dominate.  Some economists still stick with Stata, but largely they are doing sophisticated econometrics where the reference package for the method is written in Stata.  SAS still seems to be sticking around as well.

But, anymore, it's basically tidyverse, pandas, or people who are still reluctant to give up their 3.5" floppy drives."

I am retired now, but spent 40 years using SPSS, and I'm now wondering if it is still in use as heavily as it was when I was involved in academic research? Can anyone provide feedback as to how viable SPSS is in the academic research community today? 

I'm curious to know if it is still among the leaders of software packages for data analysis. The distinction between SPS, SPSS for Windows, and IBM Statistics is not important here, as I use IBM SPSS now, so this question is really asking about the most current version(s).

Thanks for any feedback you can provide!

Best,

Roger

In the UK the situation is the same with most academics being encouraged to use R. It does depend on department so Psychology, medicine, are all R users whereas education, social work, social policy departments teach SPSS and use it in research. But research is making more use of linked administrative datasets ( eg linking education records and health and employment). These datasets can only be linked in a secure research environment. R or Python will become the only software that can be used as the environment is moving to the cloud next year. SPSS does not have the Cloud native functionality.
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Original Message:
Sent: 8/2/2024 3:51:00 PM
From: Roger Fiedler
Subject: SPSS Usage/Market Share?

Recently, I was in contact with those working with baseball statistics using publicly-available data through Retrosheet. When I suggested that SPSS might be a very useful tool for analyzing such data (14+ million records!), I received some interesting feedback:

"I've been employed in several academic institutions for a few decades now and know exactly zero people who use SPSS.

By sheer volume, R+tidyverse or Python+pandas (or one of the other edgier data frame libraries) dominate.  Some economists still stick with Stata, but largely they are doing sophisticated econometrics where the reference package for the method is written in Stata.  SAS still seems to be sticking around as well.

But, anymore, it's basically tidyverse, pandas, or people who are still reluctant to give up their 3.5" floppy drives."

I am retired now, but spent 40 years using SPSS, and I'm now wondering if it is still in use as heavily as it was when I was involved in academic research? Can anyone provide feedback as to how viable SPSS is in the academic research community today? 

I'm curious to know if it is still among the leaders of software packages for data analysis. The distinction between SPS, SPSS for Windows, and IBM Statistics is not important here, as I use IBM SPSS now, so this question is really asking about the most current version(s).

Thanks for any feedback you can provide!

Best,

Roger

Original Message:
Sent: 8/5/2024 2:50:00 AM
From: Julie Selwyn
Subject: RE: SPSS Usage/Market Share?

In the UK the situation is the same with most academics being encouraged to use R. It does depend on department so Psychology, medicine, are all R users whereas education, social work, social policy departments teach SPSS and use it in research. But research is making more use of linked administrative datasets ( eg linking education records and health and employment). These datasets can only be linked in a secure research environment. R or Python will become the only software that can be used as the environment is moving to the cloud next year. SPSS does not have the Cloud native functionality.
Sent from my iPhone


Original Message:
Sent: 8/2/2024 3:51:00 PM
From: Roger Fiedler
Subject: SPSS Usage/Market Share?

Recently, I was in contact with those working with baseball statistics using publicly-available data through Retrosheet. When I suggested that SPSS might be a very useful tool for analyzing such data (14+ million records!), I received some interesting feedback:

"I've been employed in several academic institutions for a few decades now and know exactly zero people who use SPSS.

By sheer volume, R+tidyverse or Python+pandas (or one of the other edgier data frame libraries) dominate.  Some economists still stick with Stata, but largely they are doing sophisticated econometrics where the reference package for the method is written in Stata.  SAS still seems to be sticking around as well.

But, anymore, it's basically tidyverse, pandas, or people who are still reluctant to give up their 3.5" floppy drives."

I am retired now, but spent 40 years using SPSS, and I'm now wondering if it is still in use as heavily as it was when I was involved in academic research? Can anyone provide feedback as to how viable SPSS is in the academic research community today? 

I'm curious to know if it is still among the leaders of software packages for data analysis. The distinction between SPS, SPSS for Windows, and IBM Statistics is not important here, as I use IBM SPSS now, so this question is really asking about the most current version(s).

Thanks for any feedback you can provide!

Best,

Roger