It’s software built for doing statistics a long time ago. And it makes certain assumptions about the sorts of data you’re going to be giving it. This is a solution for dealing with Google’s silly nonstandard way of representing multi-punch lists, not a solution to a statistical problem. It’s totally reasonable to process the raw data using some other program or script before sending it to SPSS—it’s what the pros do anyway.
I’m personally using R myself. That’s why I can’t imagine it to be hard is SPSS because. If Yvain has however spent time learning SPSS it might be costly to relearn things in R.
SPSS is a software build for doing statistics. There should be a way in SPSS to do this that’s better than switching to a different software.
It’s software built for doing statistics a long time ago. And it makes certain assumptions about the sorts of data you’re going to be giving it. This is a solution for dealing with Google’s silly nonstandard way of representing multi-punch lists, not a solution to a statistical problem. It’s totally reasonable to process the raw data using some other program or script before sending it to SPSS—it’s what the pros do anyway.
R is a free—and imo better—alternative.
I’m personally using R myself. That’s why I can’t imagine it to be hard is SPSS because. If Yvain has however spent time learning SPSS it might be costly to relearn things in R.