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IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook

You're reading from   IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook If you've already had some experience with IBM SPSS Modeler this cookbook will help you delve deeper and exploit the incredible potential of this data mining workbench. The recipes come from some of the best brains in the business.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849685467
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

IBM SPSS Modeler Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Data Understanding FREE CHAPTER 2. Data Preparation – Select 3. Data Preparation – Clean 4. Data Preparation – Construct 5. Data Preparation – Integrate and Format 6. Selecting and Building a Model 7. Modeling – Assessment, Evaluation, Deployment, and Monitoring 8. CLEM Scripting Business Understanding Index

Parsing and performing a conversion on a complex stream


In this example we have data from a call center in the Philippines. The managers at the call center want to determine the call volume between midnight and 8 AM so they can staff the call center accordingly. To get this information, there is a timestamp variable that indicates the time when the customer called and the time zone where the customer was located (in this case all customers are in the Pacific time zone). Now there are two wrinkles in this timestamp variable. First, the timestamp variable does not have a constant string length. This variation in position makes it more difficult to extract the actual times because we cannot just specify to extract all characters between position x and position y. Second, even though all customers called from the Pacific time zone, some called during Pacific Standard Time and others during Pacific Daylight Time, and in the Philippines this time change does not occur, so we'll need to add an...

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