Re SPSS The statement comes from an academic who has no understanding of the business world and a limited or no understanding of the module applications of SPSS to business.
SPSS is a business analytic tool, used by businesses to indicate where they should be going, rather than where they have been. Students in business disciplines need to have access to the integrated tools of SPSS to develop their careers - PSPP only has limited functions and serves a role as a teaching tool. Brian Steel middle.ea...@xtra.co.nz ________________________________ From: "pspp-users-requ...@gnu.org" <pspp-users-requ...@gnu.org> To: pspp-users@gnu.org Sent: Wednesday, 29 July, 2009 4:01:15 AM Subject: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 18 Send Pspp-users mailing list submissions to pspp-users@gnu.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to pspp-users-requ...@gnu.org You can reach the person managing the list at pspp-users-ow...@gnu.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Pspp-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. PSPP Perl Module (Patrick Donelan) 2. Re: PSPP Perl Module (Ben Pfaff) 3. Slightly off topic news about SPSS (Alan Mead) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:15:04 +1000 From: Patrick Donelan <p...@patspam.com> Subject: PSPP Perl Module To: pspp-users@gnu.org Message-ID: <42321ee20907280615x4f1e5acfj503f764764d07...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi PSPP people, I was very excited to stumble across PSPP this afternoon. I've had a little play and come up with a simple Perl module that wraps the pspp binary and scratches my itch of wanting to generate downloadable SPSS-compatible files (.sav) on the fly from a website. It's nothing more than a dumb wrapper at this stage, but please let me know if you're interested in using the module from your own Perl code and if so what sort of features/API might be desirable. The module is up on github <http://github.com/pdonelan/PSPP/tree/master> and CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/%7Epdonelan/PSPP-0.01/lib/PSPP.pm>. Cheers, Patrick Donelan http://patspam.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/pspp-users/attachments/20090728/a97298cf/attachment.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:45:37 -0700 From: Ben Pfaff <b...@cs.stanford.edu> Subject: Re: PSPP Perl Module To: Patrick Donelan <p...@patspam.com> Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org Message-ID: <87prbkexa6....@blp.benpfaff.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Patrick Donelan <p...@patspam.com> writes: > I was very excited to stumble across PSPP this afternoon. I've had a little > play and come up with a simple Perl module that wraps the pspp binary and > scratches my itch of wanting to generate downloadable SPSS-compatible files > (.sav) on the fly from a website. Do you know that PSPP includes its own Perl module for reading and writing .sav files? -- Ben Pfaff http://benpfaff.org ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:21:31 -0500 From: Alan Mead <am...@alanmead.org> Subject: Slightly off topic news about SPSS To: pspp-users@gnu.org Message-ID: <4a6f177b.5080...@alanmead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sorry if news about SPSS is not of interest to everyone, but Yahoo is reporting that IBM will acquire SPSS: http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090728/ap_on_hi_te/us_ibm_spss_acquisition What caught my eye is that both SPSS and IBM describe SPSS as a business analytic tool. As a psychologist, I've felt that SPSS no longer cares about serving my needs, and I fear that IBM's acquisition will only accelerate that. Certainly the price of the software is growing beyond what's reasonable for my to pay to analyze my experimental data. So, I've seen a lot more users on this list over the past year and I would hazard a guess that if PSPP is ready for general purpose use in a year, you might get a big influx of new users fleeing SPSS. -Alan -- Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychology Scientific Adviser, Center for Research and Service Illinois Institute of Technology 3101 South Dearborn, 2nd floor Chicago IL 60616 Skype: alandmead +312.567.5933 (Campus) +815.588.3846 (Home Office) +312.567.3493 (Fax) http://www.iit.edu/~mead http://www.center.iit.edu http://www.alanmead.org The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users End of Pspp-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 18 ******************************************
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