Kurs informasjon: Introduction to IBM SPSS Maps (V20) - eLearning

NOTE: THIS IS AN ONLINE SELF-PACED COURSE. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THIS COURSE.

Due to the nature of the enrollment mechanism, you see this course marked as a classroom course. However, this course is delivered as an online self-paced course, and will be available to you 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for a 1-year period from the time of enrollment. There is no instructor for this course. Choose any of the course instances listed under the course schedule to enroll, and you will receive information on how to access the course in 2-3 business days. After the enrollment, you will have access to the course for 1-year. (Please note: once you enroll in this course, you will not be able to unenroll.) Please do not make any travel plans for this class.

This eLearning offering is a Web-based Training (WBT). IBM SPSS WBTs are interactive multimedia modules that are intuitive and instructionally sound. Through visual content and audio, product demonstrations, hands-on learning activities, and simulation-based assessments and quizzes, the modules guide the students to mastering an IBM SPSS application.

Introduction to IBM SPSS Maps (V20) is a recorded course that teaches customers, who are familiar with IBM® SPSS® Statistics, how to create and edit maps using the IBM® SPSS® Statistics Graphboard Template Chooser. Specifically, customers will learn how to take data with a geographical component and create different types of maps that allow one to see patterns in the data that might not be evident in traditional charts. They will also learn how to use the Map Conversion Utility to create additional map template files.

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This basic course is for:

• data analysts
• anyone reporting research findings
• consumers

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You should have:

• General computer literacy
• Completion of the "Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics" courses or experience with IBM SPSS Statistics including familiarity with opening, defining, and saving data files and manipulating and saving output

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Please refer to course overview.

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Course Introduction

• Course Description
• Objectives
• Supporting Materials
• Course Assumptions

Introduction to the Graphboard Template Chooser

• Explain the basic elements of the Graphboard Template Chooser interface.
• Create a graph that represents the relationship between variables.
• Create a map that takes into account the geographical location of the data.

Converting and Distributing Map Shapefiles

• Explain where the Graphboard Template Chooser manages map shapefiles.
• Edit an existing SMZ file to create a new map shapefile.
• Import an SMZ file into the Manage system of the Graphboard Template Chooser.

Creating Maps

• Create maps that takes into account the location of the data including:
• Create Choropleth maps.
• Create Coordinate maps.
• Bars (Pie/Line Chart) on a map.
• Point (Polygon/Line) overlap maps

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• Intel Pentium 4, 3GHz, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor
• Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 operating system
• 128 MB RAM
• 128 MB of graphics memory
• Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2, Internet Explorer 7.0 or 8.0
• Mozilla Firefox (3.5 or 3.6)
• Adobe Flash Player 10.0 or higher
• Flash Global Security Setting must be set to allow Flash content to use older security rules
• Screen resolution setting: minimum - 1024 x 768, recommended - 1280 x 800
• 400 MB - 450 MB of free disk space
• Font size should be set to Normal in Display Properties
• Minimum color depth/quality (monitor settings) of Medium (16-bit)
• Minimum Bandwidth 56K
• Sound card
• For LMS deployment: SCORM 1.2 compatible LMS

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