This course provides the foundations of using IBM SPSS Modeler and introduces the participant to data science. The principles and practice of data science are illustrated using the CRISP-DM methodology. The course provides training in the basics of how to import, explore, and prepare data with IBM SPSS Modeler v18.2, and introduces the student to modeling.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
Please refer to course overview.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
• Data scientists
• Business analysts
• Clients who are new to IBM SPSS Modeler or want to find out more about using it
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
• Knowledge of your business requirements
COURSE CONTENT:
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
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
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