IBM SPSS Statistics is the world's leading statistical software. It enables you to quickly dig deeper and get insight into your data, making it a much more effective solution than spreadsheets, databases or standard multi-dimensional analysis tools. In the following, you will use financial data and classification modeling to predict loan default. The techniques you learn today can be used across a variety of predictive use cases to save your organization time and money including student retention, hospital readmission, and customer churn.

In this tutorial, you will explore the following key capabilities:

• Data import and preparation
• Descriptive statistics, correlations, and data visualization
• Advanced statistical modeling including decision tress and logistic regression
• Data export and reporting

Before you start

This tutorial is meant to be used with a VM designed to showcase IBM SPSS Statistics. If you do not already have a running instance, please sign up for one.