Entries tagged with spss

1) I have not seen Lost yet.

drsnicket and I will be viewing it tonight after she picks me up after class and we go have dinner. I am dying to know what happened.
2) How I loathe SPSS. I'd forgotten how much I hated it.
3) More than SPSS, I loathe databases that aren't easily importable by SPSS. I have a bunch of mismatched variable names and variables. And ooh, I just figured out why -- there were commas in a bunch of things, and that messed up my data! Must go through and fix that.
4) I had a pleasant morning. I was up before 9, showered at 10, talked to my brother about a lift at 10:30, he picked me up at 11:15 and we went to school together. We worked on finishing up the crossword puzzle together on the way. :)
5) I desperately want to skip Italian, but at the same time, I am looking forward to Italian because it will take me away from SPSS CRAP for another hour and a half.

How on earth I'm going to find the sheer willpower to do all the crap I need to do for next week, I do not know. Thank goodness today marks my weekend. Friday is Day of Recharging, Saturday will be Day of Work 1 and Sunday will be Day of Work 2.

With any luck, the prof for my Monday class will cancel Monday because his wife will hopefully be in labour. Monday will, therefore, be Day of Work 3, followed by Evening With JB.

Should leave for Italian soon. Sigh.

And so, with a million respondents, I have officially declared my survey a success.

Okay, so it's up over 200, not a million, but still. I'm letting it run until Sunday night, then closing it up. I'm pretty sure it'll drop in popularity as soon as it's off everyone's friendslists, so I'm thinking... 230-250 respondents, which is PRETTY DAMN AWESOME. I <3 the Internet.

That said, there's NO WAY I'm going to be able to put in all that data for my class, which ends in less than two weeks, so I'm probably going to use the first 75 for this class and come back and use ALL of it for my honours thesis (which will be based on this work I'm doing for this class) in a year's time. Or, I may do systematic sampling and use every third respondent or something. I'm not sure. I've started entering some data (just one person so far) and OMG, the agony of data entry! Seriously. It's painful. Yay!respondents, yay!data, boo!dataentry.

It's 2005. Surely they've come up with a way for data to magically be transferred from one format to another, from email to a database format. Right? Right?

Sigh.

Anyways, I just wanted you all to know that this is ALL I'm going to talk about for the next several days.

Well, and JB. Of course. ;)

Variety of things.

SPSS: The Thrill of Data, the Agony of Data Entry