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While variable view is used for the data properties modification.

Data view is basically a spreadsheet with rows and columns. In the Data Editor window, there are two view modes: Data View and Variable View (see Figure 5). In this work, I will be entering data manually for the start and real dataset will be used later for analysis. The former requires you to enter the data into the spaces provided in the boxes in Figure 3 while in the later, already defined data with variable names are imported with little modifications. There are two ways in which you can get data into SPSS: 1) manual data entry and 2) data importation. One of the things you should know while learning how to use SPSS is how it stores and uses data you supplied. When you close the “Welcome window” you will be left with two windows: “Data Editor (Figure 3)” and “Output window (Figure 4).” But guess what! I often close the window immediately it comes up! Additionally, “What’s New” feature is also on the dialog box. The dialog box shows the recent works which makes continuation of any of them easier. When you open SPSS, you may be greeted by the dialog box above (Figure 2). Hence, this article uses screenshots of SPSS on a Windows machine. That is, how SPSS appears on my machine which is Windows version SPSS may be different from how it appears on MacOS etc. It must be noted that SPSS startup procedures differs and this is a function of the configuration of your machine. The tutor assumes you have IBM SPSS installed in your machine already and no guidelines is given on how to install the application in this blog. In this article, IBM SPSS version 25 is used for the illustrations and Figure 1 shows the “About” of the software. SPSS was acquired by IBM (International Business Machine) in 2009 and became IBM SPSS. SPSS stands for Statistical Package for Social Sciences. It is a series of blogs that opens you up to data analytics using one of the interesting applications designed specifically for data analysis – IBM SPSS (Figure 1). In this blog, I will be introducing you to IBM SPSS software for data analysis.