Data analysis and analytics. Uncover insights and transform your organisation.

This introductory SPSS course is for researchers and administrators who need to turn data into actionable insights with a powerful and easy-to-use database.

This course provides practical, hands-on experience using many of the functions in SPSS. You will learn basic statistical concepts and practice data analysis and interpretation.

This course will prepare you for participation in more advanced SPSS courses, or more advanced statistics courses.

Aims

This course aims to provide you with a basic introduction to many of the functions in SPSS, along with a basic understanding of applied statistics, statistical analysis and statistical interpretation.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• identify different data types
• develop a data dictionary as an essential component for data entry
• use the basic functions of SPSS
• manually enter data from paper forms
• import data into SPSS from an Excel file
• prepare data for reporting and/or analysis by cleaning, editing and modifying data
• generate summary reports, tables and charts
• apply some basic statistical concepts
• conduct preliminary statistical analyses and interpret the results
• save the necessary files generated by SPSS
• automate data analysis and presentation components.

Content

Diverse data definition and input/import

• Data types: identify