Chris Kirchberg is a Technical Enablement Engineer for the JMP division of SAS. Kirchberg has more than 25 years of experience in bioinformatics, proteomics and genomics. Before joining SAS, Kirchberg worked at various bioinformatics companies helping customers explore biological pathways related to data and instructing users on software applications related to microarray data analysis, data integration, proteomic data analysis and protein identification. Kirchberg has an MS in biochemistry from Colorado State University, where he researched structure-function relationships of proteins. He continued this work at University of Colorado at Boulder, studying cytochrome c oxidase assembly, transcriptional cross-talk between the mitochondrial genome and the nuclear genome, and oxidative stress in yeast. Kirchberg was also an adjunct professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver where he taught human biology.
Showing a map within Graph Builder in JMP has become a popular way to visualize data. This is partly because you can color the geographic area of interest based on a variable in the data table (Figure 1). Or you can plot cities as points if you have latitude and
Graph Builder gets a lot of attention in the JMP Blog and from our customers because it is so flexible. People really like to stretch what it can do and create graphs that communicate with their peers in compelling ways. Recently, a customer asked me whether it was possible to