Articles with the keyword “predictive analytics”

Predictive and precarious

By Tim Macer on 28th Jul 2009.

So the news breaks that SPSS has pulled off a marriage with an IT industry behemoth. While many have speculated that SPSS was hoping to get bought by Microsoft, the big surprise is it’s the sober suits at IBM that have carried off the bride. Now, the real reason for the big name change is [...]

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A disappearing trick: Dimensions and SPSS

By Tim Macer on 1st Jun 2009.

It’s ten years since SPSS announced its vision for the future of research software in 1999: its ‘Vision 2000’. Its dedicated MR division, SPSS MR was tasked with turning this vision into reality and the product was named Dimensions. A stream of products eventually started to appear for customers using the firm’s legacy products like [...]

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