

If you purchase a license for SPSS, we suggest you buy the Graduate Pack.Īuthors: Individual chapters written, or updated from previous versions of this tutorial, by Linda Fiddler (CSU Bakersfield), John L. Most colleges and universities have labs where you can use SPSS. In order to use the software you will need for this book, you will either have to purchase SPSS or find a computer laboratory in which SPSS has been installed.

But either way, I'll explain concepts thoroughly as we go through the course. This is an introductory course, so you don't need to have experience with SPSS or other programs, it's helpful, but not critical to have some familiarity with the basic concepts of statistical analysis.

We'll also see how you can share your work with others so they can get the same benefits of the data revolution. We'll see how you can make data visualizations and wrangle data, calculate descriptive statistics, we'll work with some powerful methods for analyzing associations in the data and building models to help you get insight.

I'm Barton Poulson, and in this course, we'll take a look at how you can get started with SPSS. And one of the best ways to do that is with the program SPSS, a data analysis package from IBM that originally was developed over 50 years ago for exploring and modeling data. The baseball legend Yogi Berra reportedly said that "You can see a lot by just looking" and it may sound strange, but that principle actually applies to data analysis as well.
