SPSS WORKSHOP
Department of Economics, School of Liberal Studies organized SPSS Workshop on
12th January 2017. An expert statistician from IBM SPSS, Mr Subramanya was the
honourable guest for the session. The workshop was organized for
demonstrating the usefulness of SPSS Software for research in social sciences
and to understand the basics of the software for beginners.
The session began with welcome of the guests by Ms Niral Desai, nal year
student of Economics major. She welcomed Prof Nigam Dave, Dean and Director,
School of Liberal Studies, Prof Prashanta Panda, Head of the Department of
Economics, SLS and Mr Subramanya, expert statistician from IBM SPSS. Prof
Nigam Dave encouraged the audience to attend the session as it was a useful
opportunity to learn the software for data analysis purposes. Prof Panda
welcomed the guests and explained how the workshop would be useful both for
faculties and students. Mr Subramanya began the workshop by explaining the
history of SPSS Software and how its latest version SPSS 24 has evolved over a
period of years. He demonstrated the worksheet of SPSS on the projector and
gave a step-by-step guide on how to use the software.
Mr Subramanya explained
that the four stages of any
data-analysis procedure is
data collection, data
preparation, data analysis
and data interpretation.
He explained how SPSS
software is capable of
importing data not only
from MS Excel sheets but
also from MS Word les. In
his session, he covered
various aspects of the
the software like copying data properties, how to recode variables, visual binning
method, how to plot graphs, use descriptive statistics, use custom tables, handle
multiple response sheets, compare means, conduct t-test and Anova test,
compute correlation, cluster analysis, etc which turned out to be very useful for
students currently learning data analysis in theory.
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