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You've got 2,000 open ended survey responses and a deadline. What happens next?Usually one of three things. Someone read...
23/09/2026

You've got 2,000 open ended survey responses and a deadline. What happens next?

Usually one of three things. Someone reads them all and codes them by hand over a week. Someone reads the first 200, gets the gist and writes "themes included..." Or nobody reads them and the question gets dropped from the report.

There's a better answer. We've built an SPSS Statistics extension to read the text for you. It's built for the text that piles up: customer and tenant feedback, survey verbatims, product reviews, support tickets, contact centre notes.

There's a free demo version on our site. It's capped at 25 records a time, so it won't clear your backlog, but it's enough to see whether it would.
https://www.sv-europe.com/product/watsonx-ai-text-categoriser-demo-version/

Text comments often contain the richest insight in a dataset, but they are also the hardest to analyse consistently at scale. Text analytics helps turn unstructured text into structured evidence by identifying themes, sentiments and patterns across sources such as surveys, support tickets, reviews a...

When you’re conducting any kind of statistical analysis, it’s vital that you select the correct tests to perform. If you...
21/09/2026

When you’re conducting any kind of statistical analysis, it’s vital that you select the correct tests to perform. If you don’t choose the right tests then the results you generate can be meaningless and this can lead to business decisions being made based on faulty analysis.

To help you understand which tests to use we’ve put together this simple infographic that outlines the key factors you will need to consider and the decisions you’ll need to make at each stage.
https://www.sv-europe.com/FAQ/how-do-i-choose-the-correct-statistical-test/

When you’re conducting any kind of statistical analysis, it’s vital that you select the correct tests to perform, given the […]

Quick SPSS tip: not sure which modules you actually have installed and licensed?There's a one line answer. Open a new sy...
18/09/2026

Quick SPSS tip: not sure which modules you actually have installed and licensed?

There's a one line answer. Open a new syntax window (File, New, Syntax), type show all and run it. Buried in the output is a table listing every module on your machine.

This can be handy when a procedure is greyed out and you're wondering whether it's a licence issue, or when your renewal is coming up and you want to check you're only paying for what you use.

Video and written walkthrough here: https://www.sv-europe.com/FAQ/how-do-i-know-which-spss-modules-i-have-installed/

Sometimes it can be useful to know which SPSS modules you have installed and are licensed for. There’s a simple […]

Can AI replace SPSS? Short answer: no. Longer answer in our blog, but here's the gist.AI is brilliant at the work around...
16/09/2026

Can AI replace SPSS? Short answer: no. Longer answer in our blog, but here's the gist.

AI is brilliant at the work around the analysis. Summarising literature, suggesting hypotheses, automating the tedious data prep. What it can't do is give you a transparent, reproducible audit trail from raw data to result, which is exactly what a reviewer, supervisor or funder will ask for.

There's also the small matter of hallucinations. An LLM will happily produce a confident, authoritative sounding result that is simply made up, and if you're not checking it against a validated statistical tool you may never know.

And then there's the data itself. Patient records, employee data, commercially sensitive figures. Once that's uploaded to a cloud AI model you've largely lost control of it. SPSS runs on your own machine or within your own IT environment, so it never leaves your systems.

The point isn't SPSS or AI. It's knowing which job each one is for. In this blog we set out seven reasons why SPSS stays at the core of credible research, and how AI fits around it.

Read it here: https://www.sv-europe.com/blog/why-researchers-cannot-replace-spss-with-ai/

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we live, work, and analyse data. From generative AI models that can summarise papers in seconds to machine learning algorithms capable of detecting patterns in huge datasets, the technology is advancing rapidly. It’s no surprise that some resear...

Most organisations are sitting on years of documentation, policies, reports and old RFP responses that nobody can find w...
14/09/2026

Most organisations are sitting on years of documentation, policies, reports and old RFP responses that nobody can find when they need them.

What if your team could just ask?

Join us for a free one hour webinar, Creating your own custom chatbot, on 7 October at 3pm BST. We'll show you how simple it is to build a ChatGPT-style assistant trained on your own content using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with IBM watsonx.ai.

Unlike a generic model, a RAG chatbot only answers from documents you've given it. That means accurate answers, full control over the content and the governance and security that a generic tool can't offer.

You'll see how to:
✅ Securely upload and manage your documents so users can chat with them
✅ Use IBM's Prompt Lab and AutoAI RAG tools to build models tuned to your best Q&A examples
✅ Deploy to internal or external audiences with governed access to trusted information

We'll also show you ChatSPSS, the assistant we built for the analytics community using exactly this approach, and share what we learned along the way.

Book your free place here: https://www.sv-europe.com/events/creating-your-own-custom-chatbot-see-chatspss-in-action/

Discover just how simple it can be to build your own ChatGPT-like capability using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with IBM Watsonx.ai.

Your test came back with p = 0.04. Now what?Plenty of people run significance tests every week without being entirely su...
11/09/2026

Your test came back with p = 0.04. Now what?

Plenty of people run significance tests every week without being entirely sure what the result is actually telling them. The logic behind p values and null hypotheses is odd, and most of us were taught the mechanics without the reasoning.

If this sounds familiar, why not join us for a free one hour webinar, How to interpret significance tests, on 7 October at 12pm BST.

We'll unpack the theory behind statistical "tests" and cover:
✅ interpreting confidence intervals correctly
✅ How a Chi Square test actually works
✅ How to read a p value properly
✅ When significant isn't really significant

If you use test results to make decisions, or present them to people who do, this will be a well spent hour.

Book your free place here: https://www.sv-europe.com/events/how-to-interpret-significance-tests/

Statistical significance webinar: Understand p-values, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing with Jarlath Quinn

If you're still doing your analysis in Excel or leaning on BI reporting and wondering what predictive analytics could ac...
09/09/2026

If you're still doing your analysis in Excel or leaning on BI reporting and wondering what predictive analytics could actually do for your organisation, this webinar's for you.

Join us for a free one hour webinar, Getting started with SPSS Statistics, on Wednesday 7 October at 10am BST.

We'll walk through the three things you need to get real value from SPSS Statistics: reading and formatting your data, transforming it into something useful.

No stats background needed. This session is designed for non-statisticians.
Book your free place here: https://www.sv-europe.com/events/getting-started-with-spss-statistics/

Free IBM SPSS Statistics webinar: Learn data analysis, transformation and reporting basics in one hour for non-statisticians

Our free webinar on text analytics with AI is on 9 September at 10am and there's still time to book.Free text is the dat...
04/09/2026

Our free webinar on text analytics with AI is on 9 September at 10am and there's still time to book.

Free text is the data everyone gathers and hardly anyone uses. It's seen as too messy and too slow to code by hand, so it sits there. This session shows how AI changes that: automatically categorising responses, detecting sentiment, and letting you combine what people actually said with the rest of your data for a fuller picture.

Expect a practical walkthrough rather than theory, including how to build templates you can reuse and share across your team. You'll come away seeing your open-text data as an asset rather than a backlog.

Grab your free place while there's still time.

https://www.sv-europe.com/events/text-analytics-with-ai/

Discover how to turn free-text comments into structured SPSS variables using Smart Vision Europe's AI-powered Text Categoriser, built on IBM watsonx.ai.

Everyone collects free text feedback. Far fewer actually do anything with it.On 9 September at 10am we're running a free...
02/09/2026

Everyone collects free text feedback. Far fewer actually do anything with it.

On 9 September at 10am we're running a free webinar on text analytics with AI. It's about turning all that unstructured text, the survey comments, the customer feedback, the open-ended responses, into something you can actually analyse.

We'll show how AI and natural language processing can categorise responses and detect sentiment automatically, cutting out the manual coding that makes this stuff so time-consuming most teams quietly give up on it. You'll also see how to build reusable templates and pull the results into your wider analysis alongside your numerical data.

If you're sitting on a pile of open-text responses you've never quite got round to, this is the session that makes it feel doable.

Free place, link below.

https://www.sv-europe.com/events/text-analytics-with-ai/

Discover how to turn free-text comments into structured SPSS variables using Smart Vision Europe's AI-powered Text Categoriser, built on IBM watsonx.ai.

Our free webinar on moderation and mediation analysis in SPSS Statistics is on 3 September at 3pm and there's still time...
31/08/2026

Our free webinar on moderation and mediation analysis in SPSS Statistics is on 3 September at 3pm and there's still time to book.

Most analysis stops at establishing that a relationship exists. This session is about the more interesting questions underneath that: why the effect happens and who it holds true for. Moderation gets at the second, spotting where a relationship changes across different groups. Mediation gets at the first, testing whether a third variable is quietly driving the whole thing.

This session builds on regression fundamentals, so it's best suited to people who've done the earlier regression webinar or already work with these methods. If that's you, you'll come away able to read your data with a lot more depth.

Book your free place while there's still time.

https://www.sv-europe.com/events/understanding-interactions-and-mechanisms-using-moderation-and-mediation-analysis/

Free SPSS moderation and mediation analysis webinar: Master the PROCESS macro in just one hour with Jarlath Quinn using IBM SPSS Statistics.

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