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    From emax@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 29 07:51:33 2023
    Dear all,

    PLEASE HELP ME.

    I am a legal historian who is not very familiar with IT tools.

    Together with some colleagues we are trying to set up a survey, but the dataset is very fragmented (please see the attach.)

    Would anyone be able to help us put it in order? (by a fuzzy merge process?)

    Thank you very much,

    Emanuele

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  • From Rich Ulrich@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jun 29 16:49:26 2023
    On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:51:33 -0700 (PDT), emax <coolemax@libero.it>
    wrote:

    Dear all,

    PLEASE HELP ME.

    I am a legal historian who is not very familiar with IT tools.

    Together with some colleagues we are trying to set up a survey, but the dataset is very fragmented (please see the attach.)

    " ... set up a survey" does not seem to describe whatever
    you have that already exists.

    Whatever you mean by 'fragmented' is not apparent, but
    perhaps that would be evident in the attachment -- which did not
    arrive, because these Usenet groups do not allow attachments.

    You might put what you have at one of the free online depositories.
    Or you could dump it to comma-delimited format, and include that text.
    Or you could describe a few records.

    Or you could post with the attachment to the SPSS group,
    * * below, from a post by me in January, 2023 * *
    Borrowing from a post by Bruce Weaver,
    Try posting to the SPSSX-L mailing list that is maintained by the
    University of Georgia. It is far more active than this newsgroup.
    You can join and post via this website:

    https://listserv.uga.edu/scripts/wa-UGA.exe?INDEX

    I hope this helps.
    * *

    Would anyone be able to help us put it in order? (by a fuzzy merge process?)

    "Fuzzy merge" is not a term I remember.


    Thank you very much,

    Emanuele

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    Rich Ulrich

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  • From Bruce Weaver@21:1/5 to Rich Ulrich on Mon Jul 31 14:27:11 2023
    This is about a month late, but the SPSSX-L forum that Rich mentioned does not accept attachments either. But the SPSS forum on Nabble does:

    http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/

    And you can then provide a link to the uploaded file that anyone can use.


    On Thursday, June 29, 2023 at 4:49:40 PM UTC-4, Rich Ulrich wrote:
    On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 07:51:33 -0700 (PDT), emax <cool...@libero.it>
    wrote:
    Dear all,

    PLEASE HELP ME.

    I am a legal historian who is not very familiar with IT tools.

    Together with some colleagues we are trying to set up a survey, but the dataset is very fragmented (please see the attach.)
    " ... set up a survey" does not seem to describe whatever
    you have that already exists.

    Whatever you mean by 'fragmented' is not apparent, but
    perhaps that would be evident in the attachment -- which did not
    arrive, because these Usenet groups do not allow attachments.

    You might put what you have at one of the free online depositories.
    Or you could dump it to comma-delimited format, and include that text.
    Or you could describe a few records.

    Or you could post with the attachment to the SPSS group,
    * * below, from a post by me in January, 2023 * *
    Borrowing from a post by Bruce Weaver,
    Try posting to the SPSSX-L mailing list that is maintained by the
    University of Georgia. It is far more active than this newsgroup.
    You can join and post via this website:

    https://listserv.uga.edu/scripts/wa-UGA.exe?INDEX

    I hope this helps.
    * *

    Would anyone be able to help us put it in order? (by a fuzzy merge process?) "Fuzzy merge" is not a term I remember.

    Thank you very much,

    Emanuele
    --
    Rich Ulrich

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