Batch Tabulation: A Premature Obituary

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Batch Tabulation A Premature Obituary

• Keith Hughes
• Merlinco Ltd

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Survey Analysis for Programmers

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AGSP

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AGSP
Atlas General Survey Program

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AGSP
Atlas General Survey Program

Designed for ICT Atlas Computers in the 1960s
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AGSP
Atlas General Survey Program

Designed for ICT Atlas Computers in the 1960s By
a team led by John Williamson
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Q1 M 1 12 1-7 SEX C 1 42 1-2 AGE C 1 43 1-4 BREAK
M SEX AGE Q1Times,Telegraph,Guardian,Mail
,Express,Mirror,Sketch,None BREAKMale,Female,16
-24,25-34,35-44,45 -gt 10 if Q1/7 Q1 x BREAK
1 Newspapers read last week by Sex and
Age 10)
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1 MENWOMENBOYSGIRLS 2 ARE OLDMAY
BEVARYARE NICE   A,1,1,4 A/1 A/2 CLOSE
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1 MENWOMENBOYSGIRLS 2 ARE OLDMAY
BEVARYARE NICE A,1,1,4 A/1 A/2 CLOSE Generate
s MEN ARE OLD WOMEN MAY BE BOYS VARY GIRLS ARE
NICE
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MERLIN

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MERLIN

Designed for the IBM 1130 in 1973
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MERLIN

Designed for the IBM 1130 in 1973 By Andy Collins
and Keith Hughes for MAS Ltd
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data 1MENBOYSGIRLS data 2ARE OLDMAY
BEVARYARE NICE do a14 1.a
2.a end Generates MEN ARE OLD WOMEN MAY
BE BOYS VARY GIRLS ARE NICE
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MERLIN

The Promotional Bit
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Survey Analysis for Programmers

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Survey Analysis for Specwriters

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QUANTUM

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QUANTUM

Designed by Ed Ross for the IBM 360 in the 1970s
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tab q1 break   l q1 ttl Q1 Newspapers read in
last week n10Base col 112TimesTelegraphGuardian
MailExpressMirrorSketchNone   l break ttl
Sex and Age n10Base n23Sex col 142MaleFemale n2
3Age col 14316-2425-3435-4445
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QUANTUM

• Easy to use

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QUANTUM

• Easy to use
• Created a new profession

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QUANTUM

• Easy to use
• Created a new profession
• Written in C

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Survey Analysis for Specwriters

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Survey Analysis for Everyone

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snap

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snap

Designed by Peter Wills and Steve Jenkins for the
Tandy Model 1 in 1980
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snap

• Graphical interface

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snap

• Graphical interface
• Uses transposed data files

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snap

• Graphical interface
• Uses transposed data files
• Paved the way for Quanvert, Merlinplus and Pulsar

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Drawbacks to GUI

• It's quicker to write scripts!

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Drawbacks to GUI

• It's quicker to write scripts!
• It's less powerful

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Survey Analysis for Everyone

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Survey Analysis for Everyone

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Batch Tabulation as it is today

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Batch Tabulation as it is today
QUANTUM, MERLIN, SNAP

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Batch Tabulation as it is today
QUANTUM, MERLIN, SNAP STARTAB, MENTOR,
QPSMR SPSS, UNCLE, MICROTAB

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Batch Tabulation as it is today
QUANTUM, MERLIN, SNAP STARTAB, MENTOR,
QPSMR SPSS, UNCLE, MICROTAB CONVERSO, VOXCO,
ASKIA, GMI

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Current trends

• One in five end-users of research still take
  their reports in "book-form" only

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Current trends

• One in five end-users of research still take
  their reports in "book-form" only
• One in five end-users of research take their data
  electronically only

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Current trends

• One in five end-users of research still take
  their reports in "book-form" only
• One in five end-users of research take their data
  electronically only
• The majority of end-users do both, which means
  that tab production is still growing

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Current trends

• One in five end-users of research still take
  their reports in "book-form" only
• One in five end-users of research take their data
  electronically only
• The majority of end-users do both, which means
  that tab production is still growing
• Tab production is now being outsourced overseas

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The Future

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The SPSS view

• "Batch tabulation, where the result is a book of
  tables, is declining - but very slowly. I have no
  illusions that it will die in my lifetime, but
  the trend is very much towards interactive
  tabulations and other analysis techniques. "

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The SPSS view

• Increased sophistication of end-users

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The SPSS view

• Increased sophistication of end-users
• Change of pitch from suppliers, from "products"
  to "value-added services"

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Do we need new tab packages?

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Do we need new tab packages?

• Users need mature, stable, but not obsolete
  products

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Do we need new tab packages?

• Users need mature, stable, but not obsolete
  products
• They need continued maintenance and development

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Do we need new tab packages?

• Users need mature, stable, but not obsolete
  products
• They need continued maintenance and development
• They need Connectivity

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Do we need new tab packages?

• Users need mature, stable, but not obsolete
  products
• They need continued maintenance and development
• They need Connectivity
• - through triple-s, of course

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Batch Tabulation A Premature Obituary

• Keith Hughes
• Merlinco Ltd