Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

Thanks to Dave Haye at his blog for this. IBM’s Connections products have supported widgets for a while.  IBM’s WebSphere Portal also has a widget portlet. That means you can write a widget that works on many platforms. I haven’t seen a lot of that until now.  Collaboration Factory has created several widgets that work […]

This article is intended for finance professionals curious about integrating advanced statistical techniques into their various processes. The focus is not on the methods and merits of any specific modeling technique but instead focuses more on preparing finance processes for their inevitable use. The famous quarter of Monaco, a city-state surrounded by France and sitting […]

If you haven’t heard yet, IBM and Bunchball have gotten together to develop a gamification system for IBM Connections called Level Up. Gamification has been a hot topic and using it to encourage participation in you new social network deployments makes tremendous sense. To show how Level Up works with Connections, BunchBall put together the […]

Of the Conventional Analytics Mind   Using a conventional mindset, data ponds are identified and analyzed to build predictive models: Data ponds are identified for evaluation Data scientist performs detailed descriptive analysis Based upon the descriptive analysis a “outcome of interest” is established Using established guidelines a modeling technique is carefully chosen A predictive model […]

IBM Connections continues to be a hot topic with clients.  This past weekend IBM released the latest version of Connections – 3.0.1.1.  In this latest release, IBM has added support for Redhat EL 6.1, Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 9, and Sametime 8.5.2.  There also lots of fixes included. In addition, IBM just uploaded a newer […]

The SPSS Statistics Crosstabs procedure forms two-way and multi-way tables (and provides a variety of tests and measures of association for the two-way tables). The structure of the table and whether categories are ordered determine what test or measure to use. Crosstabs’ statistics and measures of association are computed for two-way tables only. If you […]

IBM SPSS Statistics offers many ways to help save time when analyzing data, particularly if you are continually performing the same types of analysis on similar sets of pools of data. TIME SAVERS “Metadata Attributes” – Data attributes have properties associated with them, and these properties are defined in metadata.   During data analysis, documentation […]

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 […]

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 […]

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)   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 […]

  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 […]