IBM SPSS Modeler Foundations (V18.2) (0A069G) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

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

Collect initial data

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

Understand the data

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

Set the unit of analysis

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

Integrate data

  • • Append datasets
  • • Merge datasets
  • • Sample records

Transform fields

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

Further field transformations

  • • Use functions
  • • Replace field values
  • • Transform distributions

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

Introduction to modeling

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

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