Re: Has anybody already created a way to read "tagged" data into SPSS?

Posted by Art Kendall on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Has-anybody-already-created-a-way-to-read-tagged-data-into-SPSS-tp5740888p5740890.html

CSV data as text looks like this.  And this could be what a result looks like so it can be used in SPSS Excel etc.
Name Gender School Major
"John","male","MIT",""
"Mary Quite Contrary","female","U of MD","English"
"Joyce","","","Math"

The same data as "tagged" might look like this
{Name:"John";Gender:"male";School:"MIT"}
{Name:"Mary Quite Contrary";Gender:"female";School:"U of MD";"English"}
{Name:"Joyce";Major:"Math"}

In a worst case scenario John's data might look like this.
{School:"MIT";Name:"John";Gender:"male";}
or
{Gender:"male";School:"MIT";Name:"John"}


An example of the first kind of tagged data is downloaded Library of Congress catalog "cards". Cards (cases) have a fixed order to tags, but empty fields are not mentioned.  If there are not editions of a book there is simply no tagged field for edition.