IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook

Preface

IBM SPSS Modeler is the most comprehensive workbench-style data mining software package. Many of its individual modeling algorithms are available elsewhere, but Modeler has features that are helpful throughout all the phases of the independent, influential Cross Industry Standard Practice for Data Mining (CRISP-DM). Considered the de facto standard, it provides a skeleton structure for the IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook and the recipes in this book will help you maximize your use of Modeler's tools for ETL, data preparation, modeling, and deployment.

In this book, we will emphasize the CRISP-DM phases that you are likely to address working with Modeler. Other phases, while mentioned, will not be the focus. For instance, the critical business ...