IBM SPSS Statistics
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SPSS is solid for social science research
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to use -- not as powerful as R, but not as difficult, either
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface looks like it's from 2007. It is understandably written by people who value function over form, but the e.g., graphing output could be improved.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Many of the statistical analyses in our lab, and all those I've done, have been with SPSS. It is quick and reasonably simple.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider R for more advanced analyses. For more simple analyses, SPSS should suffice and can even be easier to use in most cases for simple analyses.
The industry standard
What do you like best about the product?
It's easy enough to use, and is the industry standard
What do you dislike about the product?
I hate that they charge extra for basically every statistical method
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use it for everything from basic to advanced statistical analysis. Many of our clients prefer we use it so we can send them our syntax
Recommendations to others considering the product:
They are overpriced and you have to pay extra for customer support
S is for SPSS!
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS is a great statistical analysis package that allows you to clean and code data with ease.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the point and click features, SPSS would be better if it were code based.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
SPSS allows me to organize and run models predicting access to health care.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is good for beginners, but I recommend a different package for more advanced projects.
Helpful Once You Get the Hang of It
What do you like best about the product?
It does all of the heavy lifting for research-related tasks
What do you dislike about the product?
It is difficult to navigate when you first begin to use it
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to do a bulk of research data analysis in a small amount of time=efficiency
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Look into how-to videos that can educate you how to use various features.
Perhaps the best GUI stats suite for beginners available today
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS offers powerful functionality for virtually any statistical operation one needs (at least in my field, the social sciences). There's also tremendous and versatile online support from both IBM themselves and others who have created helpful walkthroughs for performing various statistical analyses. The output also looks nice and is fairly customizable.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface isn't very intuitive at all, and is mostly just a bunch of dropdown menus with little direction. Bottom line: You really need to know about stats before you use this software. However, because it is the leading GUI stats software, there is abundant documentation for this software both from IBM and from universities and others that detail how to do various operations (and interpret the output).
I also feel that this software is prohibitively expensive for an individual who just needs basic stats, and there are a lot of very nice free statistical analysis tools available for the basics.
I also feel that this software is prohibitively expensive for an individual who just needs basic stats, and there are a lot of very nice free statistical analysis tools available for the basics.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use SPSS in our Linguistics Lab primarily for statistical analyses of social sciences data, especially related to Sociolinguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you already know about statistical tests - which to choose, how to run them, and what they mean - this is an outstanding basic statistical suite. I feel that it's prohibitively expensive for an individual unless you're really doing a huge amount of complex stats, but for a university or other institution, this is a nice tool.
Easy to Use; Limited Functionality for Complex Statistics
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS is functional as s a point-and-click application; within the parameters of the application, statistical analyses are intuitive and easily accessible.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited statistical flexibility beyond basic analyses. Syntax scripting provides a workaround, but coding less intuitive within SPSS framework. SPSS is also pricier than competing applications, and graph output is difficult to tailor. Data saved in SPSS is difficult to migrate, as files are not always compatible with other analysis programs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use SPSS primarily for statistical analyses.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
SPSS runs basic statistical analyses effectively and cleanly. For more complicated analytics and/or creation of graphs and tables, other programs may be more efficient.
Excellent for statistics
What do you like best about the product?
The user interface and the ease of use makes it the best
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much. Its pretty much user friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Its very useful for the statistics purpose. User friendly nature helps reduce the time to operate.
SPSS user on a daily basis
What do you like best about the product?
I like how there are options to use the tools to run data/write syntax for you or you can write it yourself. Its relatively easy to learn I think and use
What do you dislike about the product?
Wish there was a way to save a banner when using custom tables
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use SPSS to run all of our data tables and to provide our clients with analytics
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Much better than R
GUI alternative to programming heavy statistics programs
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS provides a graphical user interface (GUI) which allows users to point and click their way through statistical analyses. This is a great introduction to statistical software for users who are not experienced with programming. It also allows for syntax to let users bridge between point and click and syntax. Although it is confined in the types of data it can handle, this is a benefit for new users, as it gives more structure. It also offers a wide array of statistical tests.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does not allocate memory well, making it difficult to work with big data within SPSS.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Data analytics and management
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Good starting software for someone just learning statistical analyses
Excellent tool for field epidemiology and the office
What do you like best about the product?
very user friendly and intuitive for analyzing data, easy to use in the field and teach
What do you dislike about the product?
it is limited for some analyses and for larger sets of data and modeling
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we analyze data from research studies, and outbreak investigations (survey data, etc.)
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