Learn What’s New in IBM SPSS Modeler

To improve your experience using IBM SPSS Modeler, the Version 1 SPSS experts have created various Tech Tips. This Tech Tip shows how to learn what’s new in IBM SPSS Modeler.  

IBM SPSS Modeler is an extensive predictive analytics platform designed to bring predictive intelligence to decisions made by individuals, groups, systems, and the enterprise. Modeler has an easy-to-use drag-and-drop user interface with a complete set of tools for accessing data, data examination, preparation, modelling, evaluation, and deployment. 

IBM SPSS Modeler users have a complete toolset to build predictive models from start to finish. Modeler uses node-based, visual programming. Users pick nodes from palettes and place them on the stream canvas. Once nodes have been placed on the stream canvas and edited, they can be linked to form a stream. A stream represents a flow of data through several operations (nodes) to a destination that can be in the form of output (either text or chart), a model, or the export of data to another format (e.g., a database). 

Help is at your fingertips in IBM SPSS Modeler and sits throughout the tool. Users can obtain help from nodes and from the Help menu. On the Help menu, users can select from Help Topics, SPSS Support, CRISP-DM Help, Examples, Accessibility Help, What’s This, About, and a link to the IBM Data Science Community. 

To learn what’s new in Modeler, go to the Help menu and select Help Topics. This will take users to the ‘Getting Started’ page. This page has a link to ‘See what’s new in this release’. Once you have selected ‘See what’s new in this release’, you will see a description of all new features. For example, if you are interested in the new feature continuous automated machine learning, a link will be provided to more information about this topic.