IBM SPSS Modeler Foundations (V18.2)

Audience

• Data scientists
• Business analysts
• Clients who are new to IBM SPSS Modeler or want to find out more about using it

Prerequisites

• Knowledge of your business requirements

Course topics

1. Introduction to IBM SPSS Modeler

• Introduction to data science
• Describe the CRISP-DM methodology
• Introduction to IBM SPSS Modeler
• Build models and apply them to new data

2. Collect initial data

• Describe field storage
• Describe field measurement level
• Import from various data formats
• Export to various data formats

3. Understand the data

• Audit the data
• Check for invalid values
• Take action for invalid values
• Define blanks

4. Set the unit of analysis

• Remove duplicates
• Aggregate data
• Transform nominal fields into flags
• Restructure data

5. Integrate data

• Append datasets
• Merge datasets
• Sample records

6. Transform fields

• Use the Control Language for Expression Manipulation
• Derive fields
• Reclassify fields
• Bin fields

7. Further field transformations

• Use functions
• Replace field values
• Transform distributions

8. Examine relationships

• Examine the relationship between two categorical fields
• Examine the relationship between a categorical and continuous field
• Examine the relationship between two continuous fields

9. Introduction to modeling

• Describe modeling objectives
• Create supervised models
• Create segmentation models

10. Improve efficiency

• Use database scalability by SQL pushback
• Process outliers and missing values with the Data Audit node
• Use the Set Globals node
• Use parameters
• Use looping and conditional execution