What’s new in IBM SPSS Statistics v24 &

IBM SPSS Modeler v18

16 February 2017

Mitya Moitra

Formerly SPSS Ireland

About the Speaker

Mitya Moitra, Analytics Consultant at Presidion

With a strong quantitative academic background

and experience of teaching, Mitya is certified in a
number of SPSS software. Having completed
analytics projects with clients from financial
institutions, gas networks, retail and insurance
companies, she can deal with the surprises of
reactive data to uncover insights.

E-mail: info@presidion.com
Website: http://www.presidion.com/
UK Phone No.:+44 (0)208 757 8820
Ireland Phone No.: +353 (0)1 415 0234

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Today’s agenda

IBM SPSS Statistics

• Introduction
• Key topics in v24
• Deep dive into new features
• Resources

IBM SPSS Modeler / Predictive Analytics

• Quick view around Predictive Analytics
• Key topics in v18
• Deep dive into new features
• Resources
 Key Topics SPSS Stats v24

Empower Every User SPSS Statistics

Extensions

Smarter Data Management Easier Importing

& Exporting

Advancements
Enhanced Productivity in existing
features

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 Key Topics SPSS Stats v24

Empower Every User SPSS Statistics

Extensions

Smarter Data Management Easier Importing

& Exporting

Advancements
Enhanced Productivity in existing
features

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SPSS Statistics Extensions SPSS Stats v24

What are IBM SPSS Statistics

Extensions?

• Free add-ons to IBM SPSS Statistics.

• Download fro SPSS Community or Create
your own.
• Written using SPSS Syntax, R, Python or
Java.
• May contain new dialogs, new SPSS syntax,
or both.

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SPSS Statistics Extensions SPSS Stats v24

4 benefits of using IBM SPSS

Statistics Extensions

Extend SPSS Statistics functionality

through Open Source

Consume R, Python and SPSS

syntax jobs without programming

Automate common SPSS syntax

tasks

Customize SPSS Statistics

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 SPSS Statistics Extensions SPSS Stats v24

IBM SPSS Statistics Extensions Hub

Statistics Extensions Hub provides an

online application store like
experience.
• Easily browse, download, update, and
remove free product extensions based
on SPSS, Python or R syntax.
• Easily find and download new
extensions.
• Get updates to existing extensions.
• Remove installed extensions.
• View properties of your installed
extensions.

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 SPSS Statistics Extensions SPSS Stats v24

IBM SPSS Statistics Custom Dialog

Builder for Extensions

Create and share extensions based on

R/Python and SPSS Syntax for your
customized needs.
• New users can create extensions
faster than ever with updated
interface.
• Easily share extensions (double click
to install)
• New control options.
• New properties of existing controls.
• New options for the menu location of
a dialog.

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 Key Topics SPSS Stats v24

Empower Every User SPSS Statistics

Extensions

Smarter Data Management Easier Importing

& Exporting

Advancements
Enhanced Productivity in existing
features

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 Importing & Exporting SPSS Stats v24

Easier Importing & Exporting

Redesigned experience for importing and exporting of

most popular file types. Now you can:
• Ignore hidden excel rows and columns.
• Remove leading and trailing spaces from string
values.
• Specify a sheet name when writing Excel data files.
• Determine the data format for a column based on a
specified percentage of values with the same
format.
• Append a named sheet to an existing Excel
workbook.
• Write variable labels instead of variable names to an
Excel file.
• Export
11 value labels to a database.
 Key Topics SPSS Stats v24

Empower Every User SPSS Statistics

Extensions

Smarter Data Management Easier Importing

& Exporting

Advancements
Enhanced Productivity in existing
features

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 Importing & Exporting SPSS Stats v24

Advancements to IBM SPSS Custom

Tables

IBM SPSS Custom Tables modules with enhanced

statistics
• Effective base for weighted sample results.
• Scores of new confidence intervals and standard
error statistics.
• A new ability to include significant test results in
the main table.
• Display significance values for column means and
column proportions tests.
• An additional false discovery connection method
for multiple comparisons.

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 Importing & Exporting SPSS Stats v24

Other Enhancements

• New SPSS Community for Extensions and Forums.

• New Welcome Screen with tie-ins to community &
license manager.
• Multithreading control on client machines.
• New TableLooks.
• “Revert to Saved” functionality.

• Python 3 support.
• Added NAÏVE BAYES and SELECT PREDICTORS to
Base (formerly Server only features).
• New Datetime formats.
• Added ability to show leading zeros.
• Variable icons in Data editor.
• Variable View refreshed.
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 Recap SPSS Stats v24

Empower Every User SPSS Statistics

Extensions

Smarter Data Management Easier Importing

& Exporting

Advancements
Enhanced Productivity in existing
features

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 Advancements SPSS Stats v24

Developer.ibm.com/predictiveanalytics
IBM SPSS Predictive Analytics Community
to house and share Extensions

Blogs

Forums

Documentation
Centre

Downloads

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Today’s agenda

IBM SPSS Statistics

• Introduction
• Key topics in v24
• Deep dive into new features
• Resources

IBM SPSS Modeler / Predictive Analytics

• Quick view around Predictive Analytics
• Key topics in v18
• Deep dive into new features
• Resources
 Quick view around Predictive Analytics

Nearly half of all organizations

apply predictive analytics in areas
critical to revenue and
profitability

48% of organizations surveyed

apply predictive analytics to their
marketing activities.

44% apply predictive analytics to

improve operations.

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 About Modeler

What is IBM SPSS Modeler?

• Comprehensive predictive analytics

platform.
• Improve outcomes through predictive
intelligence.
• Desktop to integration within operational
system deployment.
• Providing a range of advanced analytics-
text analytics, entity analytics, social
network analysis, decision management
and optimization.

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 Key Topics SPSS Modeler v18

Empower Every User Algorithms &

Extensibility

Unlock More Data New nodes &

capability

Digital
Ground to Cloud Flexibility Experience &
Mac

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 Key Topics SPSS Modeler v18

Empower Every User Algorithms &

Extensibility

Unlock More Data New nodes &

capability

Digital
Ground to Cloud Flexibility Experience &
Mac

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 Algorithms & Extensibility SPSS Modeler v18

Big Data Algorithms Available in All

Modeler Versions

Statistical methods SVM

• Big Data algorithms available in Modeler desktop and
server.
• These include a variety of commonly used machine
learning techniques valid for many situations.
 Statistics methods – linear-AS and GLE
 Linear support vector machines Tree methods Clustering
 Tree methods – random trees (previously available only
as an extension) and Tree-AS (i.e. CHAID)
 Clustering – Two-Step-AS

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 Algorithms & Extensibility SPSS Modeler v18

Value for Newer Algorithms

• Analytic Server is no longer required to run these

algorithms.
• For larger datasets, we allow better usage of limited
hardware resources through multi-threading.
• Regularization in some algorithms allow models to
work better against new data.
• Data preparation functionality is built in some
algorithms to automatically handle common data
issues.

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 Algorithms & Extensibility SPSS Modeler v18

Random Trees – Review and New Feature

Very commonly used algorithm in the data science

community
• Works well on dirty data
• Good when you just need a accurate “black box”

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Algorithms & Extensibility SPSS Modeler v18

New Time Series Algorithm

Replaces one present in version 17.1

Main benefits include:
• Multi-threaded and works in Analytic Server
• Supports creating multiple forecasts for grouping in
the data.
 Example: if a retailer has a column Sales and a
separate column labelled store a separate forecast on
sales for each store will be made.

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 Algorithms & Extensibility SPSS Modeler v18

Open Source Friendly Custom Dialog

Builder

• The Custom Dialog Builder adds Python for

Spark support without Analytic Server
• Data Scientists can create new Modeler
extensions that
 Provide access to Spark and its set of
algorithms not found natively in Modeler.
 Also allows experts from within Modeler to
access Python for advanced analytics.

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Algorithms & Extensibility SPSS Modeler v18

Spark MLlib Algorithms Accessible in

Modeler 18 via Python for Spark

• Now available for non-Hadoop data sources.

• Collaborative Filtering Extension and Page Rank
already available.

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 Algorithms & Extensibility SPSS Modeler v18

Extension Hub

New menu item on Extensions

leading to the extensions
hub.

Extension Hub – Details

• Easily search, download and
install extensions directly from
Modeler.
• Exposes the many extensions
present such as geospatial,
Watson, JSON file import, etc.
• Same capability that is being
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added to Statistics 24
 Key Topics SPSS Modeler v18

Empower Every User Algorithms &

Extensibility

Unlock More Data New nodes &

capability

Digital
Ground to Cloud Flexibility Experience &
Mac

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 New nodes & capability SPSS Modeler v18

New DB2 on Z/OS in-database algorithms

• Five in-database algorithms are now available to run

on DB2 on Z/OS or IDAA (IBM DB2 Analytics
Accelerator),
• They are
 Decision Tree
 Regression Tree
 K-Means
 Naïve Bayes
 Two-step
• This means customers with IDAA can now build and
deploy models in database resulting in less data
transfer.
• The model building can occur on system Z.
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New nodes & capability SPSS Modeler v18

Analytics Decision Management 18 to

Empower Users

• Ability to create a graph on an individual field in all tabs.

• Ability to export a single graph from a scenario in JPEG.
• Expose ability to bulk load of data into a database into the ADM GUI.
• Add two constraints to campaign optimization template – minimum profit per
offer and minimum number of offers.
• Reduce the amount of memory used in the campaign optimization template.

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New nodes & capability SPSS Modeler v18

Analytic Server 3.0

Enhancements

 Data Storage
• Full support from IBM BigInsights’ General Parallel File System (GPFS)
• Parquet format support

 Security
• Support for the Apache Knox Gateway, which enables identitities from external
Identity Management and SSO systems to be used for accessing Hadoop and
submitting jobs

 Platform Standards
• Analytic Server now supports RHEL 7.2
• As a reminder, Cloudera 5.5 and MapR 5.0 support was added as AS 2.1.0.1 in
December
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 Key Topics SPSS Modeler v18

Empower Every User Algorithms &

Extensibility

Unlock More Data New nodes &

capability

Digital
Ground to Cloud Flexibility Experience &
Mac

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 Digital Experience & Mac SPSS Modeler v18

SPSS Community

Developer.ibm.com/predictiveanalytics – The place for IBM SPSS users

SPSS Community Features

• Forums – home for all SPSS technical
forums where customers can get answers to
questions without having to go to support
• Blogs – a blog featuring posts by offering
management and other contributors on
SPSS technical topics.
• Links to YouTube videos and white papers.
• Links to extensions.
• Links to support.

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 Digital Experience & Mac SPSS Modeler v18

SPSS Community

New in v18 – direct links to Forums

and the Community

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 Key Topics SPSS Modeler v18

Empower Every User Algorithms &

Extensibility

Unlock More Data New nodes &

capability

Digital
Ground to Cloud Flexibility Experience &
Mac

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Questions and Answers

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