Level 2a: Data Management
Course Description
The focus of this course is on the use of a wide range of transformation techniques,
ways to automate your work, manipulate your data files and results, and send
your output to other Windows applications. You will gain an understanding of
the various options for operating IBM SPSS Statistics* and how to use syntax to perform data
transformations efficiently.
Who Should Attend
- Anyone who has worked with IBM SPSS Statistics before and wants to explore
its additional data management and manipulation features and generally
increase efficiency with the product
- This course is a natural follow-on from “Level 1:
Introduction” course
or a stand-alone for experienced users
Prerequisites
- Completion of “Level 1: Introduction” or experience with
IBM SPSS Statistics including familiarity with reading and defining
data, basic uses of recode and compute functions and creating charts
Course Content
- Automating IBM SPSS Statistics using syntax and production mode
- Further data transformations: automatic recode, count, conditional transformations
- Using numeric functions
- Using system functions
- Computing date, time and string variables
- Helpful data management features: identify duplicate cases, custom attributes,
variables sets, aggregating data
- Merging files – adding cases
- Merging files – adding variables
- Editing charts and pivot tables
- Deploying IBM SPSS Statistics results
- Controlling the IBM SPSS Statistics environment
- Appendix: Optimal binning using IBM SPSS Data Preparation* (add-on module)
SPSS Products Used
- IBM SPSS Statistics Base & IBM SPSS Data Preparation (appendix)
Duration
- 2 days OR 4 days web training (3hrs/day)
*IBM SPSS Statistics formerly known as PASW Statistics.
IBM SPSS Data Preparation formerly known as PASW Data Preparation.
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