Ten years ago, maybe you were learning to send email.
Now, you have been tired of visiting internet by iphone.
This video will let you know what would happen in next decade.
At first, thanks so much for coming to hear my presentation. I hope it would be somewhat or somehow helpful to someone.
As we know, SPSS is not the most powerful statistical software, but I think it is the most convenient to use, especially for the beginner. Many statistician do not like SPSS since there are some statistical bug or error in it. Moreover, SPSS is like a black box, what we can do is just input the data and choose the methods or techniques we want to use. I agree that sometimes the outputs look lovely, at least to non-stats major’s students. BUT, We cannot know the EXACT PROCESS or PROCEDURE in SPSS. In another word, we do not know the details about how SPSS dea with our data, which is terrible sometimes.
The reason why many statistician do not like SPSS? I think there are following several seasons:
1. There are some statistical errors in SPSS.
2. Do not like the interface of SPSS.
3. Hypocrisy. They think “I am a statistician,so I should use a advanced software.I will lose face if someone knows I actually use SPSS at home”.
Anyway, even though there are some errors in SPSS, we have to agree that SPSS is powerful, especially useful and convenient for social icience study because it does not need to type complicated syntax.
On December 2nd, I will conduct the third and also the last workshop of this semester, Overview of SAS. Welcome to register. In this workshop,we will use a lot of syntax which may confuse you. That is OK, maybe you are not supposed to know everything about SAS in just 3 hours. But you can get familiar with that, and you could explore it by yourself in the future.
Thank all today’s participants so much, I appreciate that.
“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.”
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs. And it inspires me every day.
I would like to share it with you.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html
Steve Jobs
Generally, the workshop is not bad. I introduce most of what I prepared. I probably prepare too many stuff and have to rush out at the end. The students with some stats background may feel a bit disappointed since this workshop does not meet their expectation.
Anyway, I appreciated everyone coming to the presentation. Next one, Overview of SPSS, will be much better than this one, definitely.
Today I will give a presentation to introduce the statistical concepts for three hours.
Good luck to myself! ^_^
