IBM SPSS Modeler Foundations (v18.2)

Introduction to IBM SPSS Modeler

• Introduction to data science
• Describe the CRISP-DM methodology
• Introduction to IBM SPSS Modeler
• Build models and apply them to new data

Collect initial data

• Describe field storage
• Describe field measurement level
• Import from various data formats
• Export to various data formats

Understand the data

• Audit the data
• Check for invalid values
• Take action for invalid values
• Define blanks

Set the unit of analysis

• Remove duplicates
• Aggregate data
• Transform nominal fields into flags
• Restructure data

Integrate data

• Append datasets
• Merge datasets
• Sample records

Transform fields

• Use the Control Language for Expression Manipulation
• Derive fields
• Reclassify fields
• Bin fields

Further field transformations

• Use functions
• Replace field values
• Transform distributions

Examine relationships

• Examine the relationship between two categorical fields
• Examine the relationship between a categorical and continuous field
• Examine the relationship between two continuous fields

Introduction to modeling

• Describe modeling objectives
• Create supervised models
• Create segmentation models

Improve efficiency

• Use database scalability by SQL pushback
• Process outliers and missing values with the Data Audit node
• Use the Set Globals node
• Use parameters
• Use looping and conditional execution

• Collect initial data
• Understand the data
• Set the unit of analysis
• Integrate data
• Transform fields
• Further field transformations
• Examine relationships
• Introduction to modeling
• Improve efficiency

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