Posts Tagged ‘IBM’

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

CRN has a short article about the latest update to Google Docs and better mobile support, especially for the Android.  While anyone who follows the mobile world won’t be surprised by the content, it’s probably a good time to reflect on larger implications…………………. One of my recent clients had taken a close look at Google […]

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 […]

In the past, one of the weak points in IBM WebSphere Portal is its handling of documents or files.  Prior to verison 6.1, Portal came with a Portal Document Manager (PDM) portlet that did a fair job in letting you manage a file store in Portal.  PDM had many faults too – it wasn’t all […]

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 […]

    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 […]

IBM released Beta 3 for IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager recently.  Beta 3 has an interesting new feature: IBM Forms.  Will forms be included in the base product or is it just part of the full Customer Experience Suite? Here is the list of new features included in Beta 3: IBM Forms Beta […]

If you work within the rapidly expanding analytics space, you will need to think about defining and sharing statistical models between applications. PMML (or Predictive Model Markup Language) is an XML-based language developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG) for this purpose. I’d like to pass on some of the essentials: The Basics PMML provides […]

IBM Cognos has officially released Cognos TM1 10.1, improving the company’s flagship Financial Budgeting and Forecasting software.  The new features guide can be found here (PDF). The main takeaways we at Perficient have as we have been in Partner Sessions, the TM1 10.1 Beta Program, and various other IBM learning opportunities are these: Improve Market […]

Often overlooked in IBM’s Web Content Management system is its ability to deliver web sites three different ways: Pre-rendered – in this mode, IBM WCM creates standard HTML pages for your site and delivers them to a standard web server.  For static content or brochureware, this is an excellent way to deliver web content.  In […]