Re: Pspp-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 18

[Brian Steel]

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

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Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:15:04 +1000
From: Patrick Donelan <address@hidden>
Subject: PSPP Perl Module
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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
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:45:37 -0700
From: Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: PSPP Perl Module
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Patrick Donelan <address@hidden> 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?
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Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org




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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:21:31 -0500
From: Alan Mead <address@hidden>
Subject: Slightly off topic news about SPSS
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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

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