Welcome back! Hope everyone had a nice summer or – for those of you based in the southern hemisphere – is enjoying their winter season at least. Our Monday Replay series, where we feature talks from recent meetups we’ve sponsored, continues. Today, we share a short clip from last month‘s SF...
[caption id="attachment 4578" align="alignleft" width="300"] Explore the new IBM SPSS Deep Dive Webinar Series[/caption] The recent new releases of IBM SPSS Modeler and IBM SPSS Statistics offer many compelling enhancements and capabilities that will excite longtime and new users alike. Our...
Check out the new version of the Programming and Data Management book (for SPSS Statistics 24). The book covers data management using the IBM SPSS Statistics command language, programming with IBM SPSS Statistics and Python or R, IBM SPSS Statistics extension commands, and IBM SPSS Statistics...
Previously I blogged about how to take Python data and turn it back into SPSS Statistics data . Here we are going to do the opposite -- turn SPSS Statistics data into Python objects. First to start out we will make a simple dataset of three variables. DATA LIST Free /X Y (2F1.0) Z (A1). ...
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Two weeks ago I posted this blog , which introduced a new extension for IBM SPSS Statistics that counts the frequency of words in a given column/variable. This post is a follow up, providing a technical breakdown of the Python running behind the scenes. This is the interface for the extension:...
When using SPSSINC TRANS, you have a wider array of functions to compute on cases in SPSS. Within the local session, you can create your own python functions within a BEGIN PROGRAM and END PROGRAM block. In SPSSINC TRANS you pass in the values in the current dataset, but you can also create...
As this is my first blog, I suspect that the best place to start is at the end, and tell you about an option to change the order in which things will happen. I left the SPSS Modeler development team in 2013, just as we were putting the final touches to Modeler 16. It was, by any standards, a...
The other day I needed to conduct propensity score matching, but I was working with geographic data and wanted to restrict the matches to within a certain geographic distance. To do this I used the FUZZY extension command, which allows you to input a custom function. To illustrate I will be...
Jon Peck made some great comments on my prior post on passing arguments to the SPSSINC TRANS function. Besides advice on that I should be quoting the argument on the FORMULA statement, he gave examples of how you can use the "TO" argument in both passing variables lists within the python...
I've been very lucky doing geographic analysis in New York state, as the majority of base map layers I need, and in particular streets centerline files for geocoding, are available statewide at the NYS GIS Clearing house . I've written in the past how to use various Google API's for geo data,...