Guides: Data &amp; Digital Scholarship Tutorials: SPSS

Workshop Objectives

Objective:

This introductory workshop will guide researchers through the basics of using SPSS:

Navigating SPSS
Preparing a FIle for Data Entry
Entering Data into SPSS
Saving Data Files
Reverse Coding Likert Scales
Computing Total Scores for a Scale
Running Frequency Tables

Creating Codebooks in SPSS
Visualizing Your Data
Descriptive Statistics
Saving Output Files
Importing Files from Excel Into SPSS
Exporting Files from SPSS Into Excel

SPSS Workshop

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Thank you for your interest in the BU Data Scholar Program's Introduction to SPSS Workshop! The objective of this course is to provide introductory skills needed to utilize the software program referred to as the "Statistical Package for the Social Sciences" also known as "SPSS." I look forward to meeting each of you soon!

Brianna P. Lemmons, Ph.D, MSW

Click Here for Workshop Schedule

(1) Take Workshops, (2) Pass Quizzes, (3) Become a Data Scholar

Interested in becoming a Data Scholar?

Takes only six workshops!

Pick any Two Categories Below, Take at Least Two Workshops from Each of Those Categories: (Total of 4)

Data Visualization
Text Data Mining
Python Data Scripting

AND

Pick any One Category Below, Take at Least Two Workshops from That Category:

(Total of 2)

Research Data Management
Finding Secondary Data

* Workshops are offered every semester. No need to fit all 6 in one semester. Become a Data Scholar at your own pace.

* Becoming a Data Scholar is not mandatory. Take any workshop you like.

Introductory Slideshow
PPTX File (password protected)
Exercise & Case Scenario
Step-by-step instructions (password protected)
Intro to SPSS Dataset.zip
Download and unzip (password protected)

SPSS for Faculty
Click on the link above and login. Scroll down to find the install instructions for SPSS.
SPSS for Students
Click on the link above and login to access the folder that contains the download instructions and install files to download.

Steps:

1. Click here to enroll in the Baylor Libraries Data Scholars Program course in Canvas.

2. Find the quiz for the SPSS Workshop listed under Data Visualization.

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Workshop Objectives

SPSS Workshop

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