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Educator Resource Center: Curriculum Materials

Welcome to the Educator Resource Center, where you'll find exclusive tools to help your students master the analytical skills needed in today's workplace. From first-day-of-class slide presentations to comprehensive curriculum starter kits, you'll find the resources you need to teach statistics and data mining techniques using SPSS Inc. software.

  • Statistics Kits
  • Data Mining Kit
  • First Day of Class
  • Textbooks
  • Data Sets
  • Tutorials

Statistics Curriculum Starter Kits

Our statistics curriculum starter kits include sample syllabi, assignments, and corresponding datasets. To access this free premium content, click on the course material you wish to access and log in with your spss.com username and password. Not a registered spss.com user? Create your account today.


Introductory Statistics Kit



Research Methods Kit



Business Statistics Kit




Data Mining Curriculum Starter Kit

Our data mining curriculum starter kit includes sample syllabi, assignments, datasets, and lecture slides. To access this free premium content, click on the course material you wish to access and log in with your spss.com username and password. Not a registered spss.com user? Create your account today.




First Day PPT Screens

First Day of Class

The first day of class can be a bit hectic. Our customizable slide presentations help you get your course off to the right start with an overview of real-world applications of statistics and data mining and brief demonstrations to get your students up and running with SPSS Inc. software.


To access this free premium content, click the appropriate category and log in with your spss.com username and password. Not a registered spss.com user? Create your account today.



Academic PG Books

Textbooks

Check out these lists of textbooks by course area to see which leading publishers and authors offer texts bundled with SPSS Inc. software.



Data Sets

Explore the links below to view interesting sample data sets suitable for use in class lectures, exercises, and assignments.

Statistics
  • StatLib—Datasets Archive
    This site, maintained by Carnegie Mellon University, includes datasets on topics ranging from arsenic to the World Series.
  • The Data and Story Library (DASL)
    DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of datafiles and stories from Central Michigan University that illustrates the use of basic statistics methods. Search by topics, data subjects, or statistical methods.
  • CHANCE Data Sets
    This series of tab-delimited data sets from Dartmouth College helps you teach fundamental statistics concepts in the context of current real-world issues.

  • Data on the Net
    The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) directory allows you to search and access more than 363 sites with data for download.
  • UCLA Statistics Data Sets
    View data sets from books, national statistical and governmental agencies, consulting projects, and data archives at this University of California, Los Angeles site.

Data Mining
  • KDnuggets
    Widely recognized as a leading news source on data mining and knowledge discovery, KDnuggets compiles a variety of links to data mining data sets on its website.
  • University of California Irvine Machine Learning Repository
    With more than 173 data sets, this site is a service to the machine learning community. View all data sets through the searchable interface, including the type of analysis for which the data is most appropriate and an explanation of where the data originates.

  • National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
    Browse or search by topic for hundreds of data sets on crime and justice.
  • General Social Survey (GSS)
    The annual GSS from the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago contains a wealth of variables addressing demographic and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest.


CMU

Tutorials

This series of in-depth video tutorials developed at Central Michigan University will guide you through the fundamentals of using IBM SPSS Statistics.


The extensive online help system in IBM SPSS Statistics also contains a wealth of useful features, including information about specific topics, a tutorial, a statistics coach, and other resources. See how to access this information here.



Tutorial Videos

Overview of IBM SPSS 
Getting Started 
Options in the Edit Menu 
Data Editor Window
Data Transformation and Recoding 
Output Window
Syntax Editor and Journal Files 
Statistical Procedures

Software Trial

IBM SPSS Statistics Trial

Download our free 14-day evaluation copy of IBM SPSS Statistics. The trial includes IBM SPSS Statistics Base plus all associated modules.


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