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Great product
What do you like best about the product?
I really enjoy the point and click system of analytics. It also allows me to recode when necessary.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are many limitations to the product, which include the graphing and depth of the statistics used.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We work strictly with university enrollment data to build predictive models for enrolling and retaining students. This software helps us do this portion of our job.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Better support via online portal and chat procedures.
Overall a really solid statistics package
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS has an easy point-and-click interface, making data analysis relatively straightforward. Another benefit is the huge community. If you ever have a problem, there are tons of resources available. SPSS doesn't require a ton of coding experience, like some other options such as R.
What do you dislike about the product?
SPSS doesn't have a ton of detailed description for all of the functions it offers. It can be easy to run a test that isn't the best option for your data source. There are, however, vast outside sources online that can be a huge help. Also, SPSS isn't quite as versatile as an open-source option like R.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I work in a research-related field and we use SPSS to ensure that we are only reporting statistically significant figures.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Take the time to do solid up-front training. It will be much easier than trying to go back and retroactively learn as you go. Also, as with any statistical software, a mathematical understanding of statistics is key to really making the best of the product.
This is for Version 21
What do you like best about the product?
At the most simple, SPSS is able to simplify data analysis. That is a definite and I'd be hard pressed to find someone to say other wise. That is the biggest pro of the software/program. It's also secure, much more so than expected. Perhaps that's a function of the fact it is an IBM product.
What do you dislike about the product?
Remember that there have obviously been updates, but integration and prep tools were much more difficult to be interfaced and ported in to the environment of the software's system. This was definitely true for larger files, particularly external ones with any kind of detailed encryption.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The input and analysis of various statistical deviations. Mostly the biggest benefit has been streamlining of our operations and distribution of data. I am very happy with how that element has worked as it pertains to the tabulation of our various economic models.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Update to the most current version.
Easy to use - Expensive to get
What do you like best about the product?
Through classes in my undergraduate and graduate degree I learned the ins and outs of SPSS. Moving into my current role, I use SPSS for small statistical analysis. Luckily I work for a university that provides the software for our use.
What do you dislike about the product?
As I have worked with outside vendors in my position, other companies are interested in adding a statistics software to their organization but they are unable to afford the subscription for their small business. With other software out there that are cheaper or totally free, SPSS is becoming harder to stick with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I have been working on marketing data to look at the difference between commuter students and on campus students. Additionally, I am analyzing the best marketing practices to reach students and convince them to attend our university.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There are student prices that have helped many many students that I know but is there a difference in pricing for the size of an organization. If so, this should be made more clear. The price of this tool makes it challenging to continue the use when there are other products that are free and as high quality.
The statistical evidence in a rapid processing
What do you like best about the product?
What I like most about the program is that it allows you to work on the linear regression models in a pleasant and very simple way, enabling you to build it using its statistical correlation functions beforehand. Once the model is obtained, it allows you to see the goodness of fit through tests like the adjusted R-squared and how well the model fits the represented phenomenon.
What do you dislike about the product?
Despite the power of the program, the tables for non-parametric statistical tests to analyze qualitative data are extremely tedious.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows us to predict values and infer about studied phenomena in the short and medium term, which cannot be obtained due to time and cost reasons, increasing our accuracy.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If what you want is to represent phenomena through mathematical modeling, loading the data file is very simple, and you can create different models and see which one best fits your description.
Statistical Software for Social Science Research
What do you like best about the product?
SPSS provides users to organize, calculate, and analyze social science data. This software is so much easier to handle huge amount of data compared to excel. It can allow us to do simple calculation, descriptive analysis, correlation, regression, factor analysis, and so on. I believe that they added more analytical features such as neural network and forecasting.
What do you dislike about the product?
The only think that I don't like about this software is that their software manual provided by IBM is not easy to find the right information quickly since it has so many information. I would suggest people to find a handy books that other scientists write about how to use spss.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have large amount of data from participants in social science study, and statistical analysis is very time-consuming process without this useful software designed for this specific purpose. Benefits are minimizing our time for analysis. It records all of our steps in this software on the output sheet. So, other researchers can reproduce your outputs
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is the best statistical software for social science
spss is so fun!
What do you like best about the product?
you can use spss to analyze so many health related statistics in america. graphs and pies were my favorite features.
What do you dislike about the product?
not much. this was a really fun chapter in my career at uiuc.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
statistical analysis! it helps us understand the data we compile regarding the community's health
Recommendations to others considering the product:
bring a notebook and pen if that helps you remember how to use software for the first few times.
Great software, not the most intuitive user interface.
What do you like best about the product?
Spss is a great tool for anybody looking to do statistical analysis on large datasets. Data is very easy to insert into the program, and once you get the hang of it you can run a lot of different statistical tests on the dataset.
What do you dislike about the product?
The user interface is very clunky and windows ‘95ish. It’s difficult to find the actual test that you want to use because the user interface is so hard to use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
At our consulting firm, we use Spss primarily to format market research data. It is invaluable in formatting huge datasets. I’ve also used the program to run statistical analysis for difference in means and other types of tests to show statistical significance in many of our presentations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It’s a great product. It’s important that you understand the capacity of the product before purchasing it. There are many other statistical software that you can use for free, that have similar capabilities as Spss.
Good for statistical analysis
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ease of use of SPSS and the charts and graphs that it outputs. The toolbar has almost anything you would need so it doesn't require writing any complex codes
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it is hard to use the dropdown menu when you have many variables. There should be an easy way to find the variable than to go down the list.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use this for analyzing data for projects. It provides useful analysis using different statistical methods.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend SPSS to those who want an easy to use statistical package because it is very user friendly. It doesn't require writing any complex codes
SPSS
What do you like best about the product?
I like the large breadth of available statistical analyses
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the usability, it seems behind the times
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use this software mostly for research, and it's a largely useful tool for large datasets
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