Archive for July, 2007



This link will lead you to a great resource:
http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkCSpy.pdf
It is a college text for teaching programming, and uses Python as the grammar. Something that comes up in classes that I teach in SPSS programming is that for many SPSS Syntax is programming. However, the tasks one performs in SPSS Syntax rarely resemble the kind of […]

The 2008 SPSS Europe Directions will be in Athens, Greece. I am likely to attend. The 2007 North America conference is in Orlando, FL in October. I am not likely to attend. The North American conference has more attendees, but if forced to choose … I choose Athens.
http://www.spss.com/spssdirections/
The Data Warehouse Institute seems to have a […]

Best book for learning SPSS? Do you want a beginner's book? If you are a novice, but are studying Stats for the long haul, Field's book is the best choice. It is not written for 15.0, but I don't think it matters in this case, since the theory he covers hasn't changed. If you need point and […]

KDD 2007

The Thirteenth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will take place in San Jose, CA, USA from August 12 through 15, 2007
http://www.kdd2007.com/
I can't make it this year. It was going to be my first, but I will be providing training that week. Everything (including its reputation) indicates that it is worth […]

I have been pretty busy lately on Amazon. I have decided to assemble a "Listmania" SPSS, Stats, and Data Mining List. My reviews here will be in more depth, and by if you follow the link here it supports the site. I have a page dedicated to reviews reachable from the home page. Reviews on […]

Marketing Research Links

http://forum.researchinfo.com/index.php
http://ecolu-info.unige.ch/archives/ceeman97/0396.html

See it in SPSS for 16.0

Follow this link for an invite for an event on July 23rd.
http://www.spss.com/events/event.cfm?E_ID=2234&source=rss