Conradt purchased SPSS securities and subsequently tipped his friend and fellow broker Weishaus, who also traded.

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Statistical tool companies, like SAS, SPSS etc. are good places to get the respective tool training.

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While domain knowledge may have been instrumental in launching SPSS, the same statistics and data analysis methods apply across many knowledge domains.

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The kids today are learning R and it will have the run for the next forty years that SAS and SPSS had for the last forty.

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The county is also using SPSS predictive analytics software, Cognos business intelligence software, i2 Intelligent Law Enforcement solution, a private cloud system on zLinux hosted on an IBM System z mainframe and IBM PureFlex System.

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Indeed, the two most successful statistical analysis programs, SPSS and SAS, expanded from their domain-specific base (social science for SPSS and bio-medical research for SAS) to become tools used wherever there was data to analyze.

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Among the best answers to this question was provided by a former client, Deepak Advani, Vice President, Predictive Analytics and the head of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) business, which is part of IBM, at a recent lunch.

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Unlike early pioneers SAS and SPSS (now owned by IBM), Revolution Analytics fits the mold of other key new players in the big data world: it supports and sells the commercial version of an open-source product, built and nurtured over many years by a dedicated community of enthusiasts.

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