SPSS is the name of a series of software packages used for data analysis. Its main selling point is that it allows scientific researchers, teachers and students to quickly analyze data without needing ...

During my undergraduate days as a statistics student, I tried various data analysis tools to find the ideal one. I started with Excel until I was introduced to R and learned to use it through paid ...

Predictive analytics, also know as data mining, is used to analyze information such as sales of consumer goods to identify trends and patterns and predict future outcomes. A retail chain could analyze ...

SAS and SPSS are the leading vendors in data mining, according Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Customer Data Mining, 1Q06." Both companies are considered the clear leaders in this space, with no other ...