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Update: By popular demand click here to download the extension and code We all know that SPSS Statistics can import data from a wide variety of sources, but what about importing data from social media sites such as Facebook? Turns out you can do that too with a relatively simple extension...
The BIG DATA UNIVERSITY Chinese Edition will be delivered this May, and now the Beta version is available. We are launching our free training about statistical analysis technology and in this training you will learn the basic of IBM SPSS Statistics including programmability. The...
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A few years ago, I learned about an interesting mathematical phenomenon known as Benford’s law, or the first digit law. The law states that most “natural” numbers begin with the number 1, followed by 2, followed by 3, and so on. There are many great blog posts and videos that do a good job of...
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...
Last week, we released the new versions of SPSS Statistics (version 24) and SPSS Modeler (version 18). With the new product release we also have a new version of R Essentials available for both products. R has been integrated with SPSS Statistics since version 19 and Modeler since version 16....
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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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IBM this week released an update to IBM SPSS Analytic Server 2.1 that extends SPSS’ support for Apache Spark to all four leading commercial software distributions based on Apache Hadoop. Analytic Server 2.1.0.1 builds on the Spark integration first released in late September by adding support...
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:...
Last week the SPSS team was in the Esri User Conference. We had a booth shared with other IBM teams and also a great session on Tuesday afternoon. We announced new SPSS (Modeler and Statistics) extensions that integrate with Esri services. These are the first set of extensions and we have more...
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...