Training Courses

Our classes are focused on the customer. If you are brand new to IBM Data Collection (formerly SPSS Dimensions), then we will give you the step-by-step course instruction you need. If you are an intermediate to advanced user, then we will teach you the tricks to get you up to speed on what you need quickly. We enclose a CD with the manual examples, answers to all the exercises, and read-only .pdf of the manuals for review later. The scripting courses are focused on creating advanced scripts quickly using the IBM Data Collection Scripting language and Professional (formerly mrStudio). We incorporated advanced topics within our manual that most people doing intermediate to advanced scripts will need right away. We took the most commonly asked questions and scenarios and incorporated those for real-life examples throughout the manuals. Our manuals are in color, so that you can see the color coding that Professional creates to identify keywords. The materials get to the point quickly; they explain what you need to know and how you need to do it.

We offer many types of IBM Data Collection Training:

Interviewer (mrInterview)
Interviewer (mrInterview) Administration
Reports for Surveys (Reporter)
Web Reports for Surveys (mrTables)

Professional (mrStudio) - Interview Scripting
Professional - Data Management Scripting
Professional - Tables Scripting
Custom Trainings

Survey Programming Fundamentals (3 Days)

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The course will cover creating an Interviewer survey using the IBM Data Collection Scripting language and Professional. Some of the topics to be covered will include creating questions, grids and loops, controlling the question order and skip patterns, filtered questions, logic validation, custom error messages, and using styles within the survey. The course will be a combination of standard materials, learning to work with the Data Collection Development Library, and hands-on exercises.

Data Management Fundamentals (1 Day)

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The course will cover data management skills using the IBM Data Collection Scripting language and Professional. Some of the topics to be covered will include how Professional reads data, converting data to different types, making data corrections, merging datasets, deriving new variables, and creating variables for weighting data. The course will be a combination of standard materials, learning to work with the Data Collection Development Library, and hands-on exercises.

Tabulation Fundamentals (2 Days)

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The course will cover creating cross-tabulations for reporting purposes using the IBM Data Collection Scripting language and Professional. The course will involve creating cross tabulations from simple to complex tabulation situations. Specific topics will include modifying table properties, filtering tables, adding statistical tests, modifying variables, adding nets to tables, creating profile tables with individual respondent information, creating summary tables, and exporting the tables and charts to PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. The course will be a combination of standard materials, learning to work with the Data Collection Development Library, and hands-on exercises.

Using Reporter (1 Day)

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The course will cover analyzing data with the IBM Data Collection product Reports for Surveys, both desktop and online versions. Some of the topics to be covered will include creating simple to complex tables, filtering tables, modifying variables, creating new variables, understanding table options, statistical tests in Reports for Surveys, and exporting tables and charts to PowerPoint, Excel and Word to prepare for reporting. The course will be a combination of standard training materials and hands-on exercises.