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Software for Data & Digital Scholarship

Information about DiSC-supported software for the collection, processing, analysis or display of numeric, text, or geospatial data

SPSS statistical software is now owned by IBM. It has many different modules, and not all installations have all modules. SPSS is mostly point-and-click, which makes the learning curve low. It does have syntax, which is important to be aware of and keep for reproducibility of analysis. The syntax is laborious, however, and those who can program are likely to prefer using Stata or R.

Consider also these Free, Open-Source alternatives:

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Good Places to Start (Video)

Ordered Video Tutorials, Interface plus basic statistics and possibly more

 

Good Places to Start (Written)

Handouts from DDSS

Special Topics

Special Topics

Data Management (Video)

Interpreting Results (Text)

For more on writing up results not specific to SPSS, see the Writing tab in the Quantative InfoGuide.

 

Need More?

These are huge collections of well-done videos (100+). They are not well organized. Thus, the links below go to the in-channel search with "SPSS". Add your own keywords to find what you are looking for.

  • Mike Crowson - Topics including ANOVA, Regression, SEM, Mediation, etc.
  • Dr. Todd Grande - From basic to advanced, including data management.

Describes real projects and the steps the researcher took to prepare the data, including alternatives and the reasoning behind the choices. Gives SPSS-specific tips and output.