IBM SPSS Statistics
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Experience with SPSS Statistics
What do you like best about the product?
I like how streamlined all of its features are-- it's only too easy to do a single task without being clouded by other potential activities.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is really nothing I don't like about SPSS Statistics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I run statistical analyses of data and numbers to identify trends, and to determine what information is important and what deserves to be done away with.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Trust the data-- if there's no significant information, it's not significant.
comprehensive and versatile statistical analysis tool with a wide range of features and capabilities
What do you like best about the product?
Although it takes some time to master SPSS, its super-fun. Recommended to graduate students or people in statistics classes. Quick and easy installation, awesome customer service.
What do you dislike about the product?
Expensive, few advanced modelling and statistical approaches cannot be done. Limited functionality for complex analysis and lacks many regression analysis techniques. Can be slow at times. R and Matlab could be better in few aspects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
For researchers and businesses, IBM SPSS Statistics means increased productivity, better-informed decisions, and a competitive edge in their respective fields.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Highly recommended
Great but confusing
What do you like best about the product?
Gives me the most in depth and customizable analysis of any other statistical/analytical program I've used. Also good for keeping info confidential
What do you dislike about the product?
The program is incredibly difficult to pick up and be comfortable with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Providing statistical analysis of research results
great statistics program
What do you like best about the product?
It is very good at helping you get the answers and data you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
The design is very ugly and hard to navigate .
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in a research lab and we use SPSS to analyze our data constantly. It is the best program we can available to use and I would recommend it to anyone.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you need a program to analzye data, this is the one for you. If you need a program to present data nicely, then I would stick with Excel. The graphs and tables from SPSS are horrible and ugly. That being said, it is very easy to create graphs elsewhere.
Still *the* standard for statistical software for non-programmers after all these years
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS was one of the first programs I learned to execute statistics on (after I learned to do the stats by hand). Over the years it keeps improving, it has an incredibly friendly GUI and underneath that a language for creating (and replicating) syntax to get the full capabilities of the program and to assist with documentation and replication.
What do you dislike about the product?
SPSS can be incredibly expensive. Depending on your needs, you may need to invest in several modules. More problematic to me is that what used to be the standard offer has (following the airline model) been "unbundled" and made to cost more now, to get what I consider basic functionality. I also think some of the tools to help marketers make decisions, which has a strength of of not requiring knowledge of statistics also has a weakness of putting powerful tools in the hands of people who don't fully understand them.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
If you need to run statistical analyses, this software will get you there. It is average or below for visualization, but can run most types of parametric and non-parametric statistics a business person would need.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would strongly recommend considering SPSS, SAS and R installations for anyone thinking of implementing inhouse statistical software. Each of these has different strengths and weaknesses, which I will not go through in depth. I will say at the highest level, SPSS is what I would install for a shop with people who have average to below average statistical skills, SAS stands out for high powered installations, and R requires the most programming know-how, but is open-source with a thriving community and the capability of handling just about any analytic problem you can imagine.
SPSS- Big Data
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS makes it easy to perform analyses for large set of data that would be hard to manage in other situations.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the logic to get the specific tests you want can be hard to find and installing programs to do additional functions is a pain.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to perform the analyses I have to do in my role. I am able to complete projects faster and more accurately that way.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a costly software but I feel that it is worth it for completing my job.
Incredible tool
What do you like best about the product?
How fast and efficient it is, and how it can manipulate complex data
What do you dislike about the product?
Can be finicky loading and opening, and looks archaic
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The need to understand data
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take time to get to know the product, it can be confusing since it can do so much
Experience with SPSS
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS makes is easy to work with Excel. You can download your data set you create in SPSS into an excel spreadsheet, or you can upload an excel spreadsheet to use in Excel. This is helpful because it does not limit the data sets that you can work with, and also makes it easier to save progress you have made in exploring your data so that you can hold onto the hard data before you start playing around with it.
What do you dislike about the product?
It definitely takes a while to figure out how exactly to use the software. If I hadn't taken a few classes on how exactly to use it. Even understanding statistics fairly well does not lend simple use of this program, but once you know how to use it you can do so much. I can't imagine there is an easy way to make it easier to use right away, but that would be my only suggestion.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SPSS is a huge help in large research projects or really any data analysis. I have used this both in class-related projects for graduate level classes or within the work place running through data analysis. It provides ways to build and save data sets for future use, to visualize the data that we are looking at, and to run different kinds of analysis that programs like Excel cannot do.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Although you are able to teach yourself the program, I would highly suggest finding guides online or even taking a tutorial class on how to use it. When I taught myself the program, there was so many useful aspects that I did not find on my own.
Amazingly quick and no need to set up (online version)
What do you like best about the product?
You can import Excel files and your date is not ruined at all. It is very convenient to use and plus it is free for me since my institution provided me with a free copy of it. When you use it online, you can access to your files from anywhere.
What do you dislike about the product?
The worst feature is that you cannot connect to your desktop on your personal computer when you are using a business online version of it. It needs to be connected to your office computer. So not very convenient and time-efficient in this respect...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have data from groups of students at K-12 level and we analyze their learning pace. This program is a classic! Although I use R, I find SPSS all the time the easiest to use and navigate. Probably it is because I got to using it, but you will come across more people like me who is familiar with this software rather than stuff like R.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Just make sure that you save your data before closing a window.
Good for basics
What do you like best about the product?
Ease of use, pull down menus intuitive, interpretation straight forward. Conducting descriptive statistics easy and output clear. Help videos abundant online. Good for basic evaluation of different types of regression and ANOVA.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nuanced complex evaluations are not as straight forward. Graphing functions are difficult to figure out. Have to manually figure out conditional effects for moderation whereas Process macro already incorporates that analysis. Step by step guides would be helpful.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Moderation, mediation, logistic and probit regressions for business research
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Limited in elegance and manipulation of data
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