Knowledge Bottleneck? When building a predictive model, the larger the number of examples or “cases” considered, the better the model. Typically, these cases exist in multiple data files (or data sources) that must be “stitched together”. The task of accessing each data source, performing some analysis on the cases contained in the data and formatting […]
Jim Miller
Mr. Miller is an IBM certified and accomplished Senior Project Leader and Application/System Architect-Developer with over 30 years of extensive applications and system design and development experience. His current role is National FPM Practice Leader. His experience includes BI, Web architecture & design, systems analysis, GUI design and testing, Database modeling and systems analysis, design, and development of Client/Server, Web and Mainframe applications and systems utilizing: Applix TM1 (including TM1 rules, TI, TM1Web and Planning Manager), dynaSight - ArcPlan, ASP, DHTML, XML, IIS, MS Visual Basic and VBA, Visual Studio, PERL, Websuite, MS SQL Server, ORACLE, SYBASE SQL Server, etc. His Responsibilities have included all aspects of Windows and SQL solution development and design including: analysis; GUI (and Web site) design; data modeling; table, screen/form and script development; SQL (and remote stored procedures and triggers) development and testing; test preparation and management and training of programming staff. Other experience includes development of ETL infrastructure such as data transfer automation between mainframe (DB2, Lawson, Great Plains, etc.) systems and client/server SQL server and Web based applications and integration of enterprise applications and data sources. In addition, Mr. Miller has acted as Internet Applications Development Manager responsible for the design, development, QA and delivery of multiple Web Sites including online trading applications, warehouse process control and scheduling systems and administrative and control applications. Mr. Miller also was responsible for the design, development and administration of a Web based financial reporting system for a 450 million dollar organization, reporting directly to the CFO and his executive team. Mr. Miller has also been responsible for managing and directing multiple resources in various management roles including project and team leader, lead developer and applications development director. Specialties Include: Cognos/TM1 Design and Development, Cognos Planning, IBM SPSS and Modeler, OLAP, Visual Basic, SQL Server, Forecasting and Planning; International Application Development, Business Intelligence, Project Development. IBM Certified Developer - Cognos TM1 (perfect score 100% on exam) IBM Certified Business Analyst - Cognos TM1
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A Simple Analytical Architectural Strategy
Over the last month I’ve been taking a tactical view of analytics by focusing on some of the specific features of IBM SPSS Statistics so today, I have decided to think a bit more “strategically”. If your organization wants to begin leveraging survey-response type data for example, what might be a reasonable approach? If I […]
SPSS Virtual Files
The power of SPSS allows the data scientist or predictive modeler to consume large data volumes. This data may come in smaller manageable subsets or possible huge “data ponds”. Depending upon the procedures you will be performing in your analysis, SPSS may reread the entire data set for each procedure. Of course, procedures that change […]
Automated Data Preparation (ADP) IBM SPSS Statistics Base
Automated Data Preparation (ADP) The seasoned data scientist knows that probably the single most import step in creating a predictive model is pinpointing the appropriate “data pond” and ensuring that it is properly “prepared”. I’ve written about the many “out of the box” tools that SPSS users can use to manage data, such as […]
IBM SPSS Add-On Modules
Serious Analytical Architect? Any serious analytic architect will need to at least be aware of the individual SPSS products offered and have at least a basic understanding of what each of them can do. Here is the list: IBM Showcase Report Writer Quickly create professional-looking, presentation-quality reports using intuitive, word processor-like page layout and […]
IBM SPSS Time
IBM SPSS defines each variable with a “TYPE”. By default, all variables in SPSS are assumed to be numeric until you change them. SPSS V20 currently supports the following variable types: Numeric and String (the most common), Comma, Dot, Scientific Notation, Date, Dollar, Custom Currency and Restricted Numeric What day is it? Today I want […]
Predictive Model Engineering
Organizations interested in using analytics to predict outcomes will score data pools by applying an appropriate predictive model. Pre-built predictive models are becoming increasingly available in the market place. Data scientists that are knowledge experts in particular areas are developing models that have increasingly better success rates. However the best approach may be for an […]
Lift Analysis and IBM SPSS
Defining what lift is “Lift” is the measure used to determine how well your targeting model does at prophesying cases as having a greater response with respect to the population as a whole. Your model may be doing its job if the response (within the target) is better than the average response of the population […]
BM SPSS Statistics – Data Management Toolset
IBM SPSS Statistics – Data Management Toolset (DMS) In a recent blog post I listed some of the more helpful “data management tools” offered within IBM SPSS Statistics version 20 (Case Summaries, Replace Missing Values, Transform and Compute, Recode, Select Cases, Sort Cases and Merge Files) and would like to review them today. These tools […]
IBM SPSS Statistics – Continued Exploration
Getting Started…Again Back to Statistics; I restart IBM SPSS and from the startup/open dialog, locate my previously defined data file from the “Open an existing data source” list and click OK. My file opens in the data editor (just as I left it) and the Statistics Viewer shows the very first transaction “GET” (and then […]
SPSS Collaboration and Deployment Services
Last time I mentioned IBM SPSS collaboration and deployment services and promised to talk more about it – so here we go: Analytical Assets Organizations positioning themselves to take full advantage of analytics will look to separate the effort of developing analytical assets and actually using them – between “creators” and “consumers”. Generally speaking, an […]
Basic Data Analysis and IBM SPSS
The basic steps in data analysis might be simplified into (1) Identifying data, (2) Selecting an analysis and summarization method and (3) Presenting the results. Over the next couple of weeks I will look at using IBM SPSS version 20 to accomplish these tasks. Today, I want to focus on loading a data […]