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Diana Levey
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Dangers of endangered species matchmaking

What a great headline: “Date Night at the Zoo, if Rare Species Play Along.” This New York Times story got my attention because I love date night. I also love many different species of animals – many of which are, sadly, threatened or endangered. This article is a great reminder

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Seeking natural scientists

One of my favorite things about living in Raleigh is that we have some big-impact museums for a medium-size city. And my favorite one, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, is about to get about twice as big. Last week, I received a “hard hat” tour of the new

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We Called, You Submitted

Because the Discovery Summit is JMP’s most prestigious event of the year, we want to ensure that each paper and every keynote is the kind of talk that keeps you talking. Thanks to you and your fabulous paper abstract submissions for the September event, we’re headed in the right direction.

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Book Drive Speaks Volumes about SAS Global Forum Attendees

Are these people speaking English? I’m in Seattle at SAS Global Forum, where some of the conversations (OK, a lot of them) are over my head. I’m hearing programmer-speak, scientist-speak and statistician-speak. Let’s face it, SAS users are some of the smartest folks around. But they’re not just smart. Between

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Mapping SAS Global Forum Attendees

How wonderful it must be to be so comfortable with a beta version of your software that you can demo it in front of thousands of SAS power users! That’s what my colleague, Jon Weisz, just did at SAS Global Forum’s Technology Connection. And he did so quite impressively, I

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See You at SAS Global Forum

It’s like I won a golden ticket to Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. That’s what it feels like to be a SAS employee who’s asked to go to SAS Global Forum, April 11-14 in Seattle. The buzz on the demo-room floor, hearing from thought leaders both entertaining and enlightening, the interaction

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Reach for the Summit

We’re asking a lot. We’re asking you to take time away from the office, to put on your visionary hat and to participate in the third annual Innovators’ Summit. We’re asking you to ask the hard questions about the state of analytics in commercial, governmental and academic organizations. We’re asking

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Second-Grader Designs Fastest Car with JMP

It may be April 1, but this is no joke. Nicholas Lifke, who has been using JMP since Kindergarten, put our statistics software to use to determine the best weight location for his Pinewood Derby car. The 7-year-old Cub Scout needed to know if weighting the front of the car

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No Excuses to miss Discovery 2009 Conference

Why would you not attend Discovery 2009? Let’s see: Tiny travel budget. Too few resources. Too much work. Already using JMP … Am I getting close? I bet you can come up with a lot of reasons not to attend. But none of those reasons can withstand a little scrutiny.

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Discovery vs. Summit: Which One’s for You?

What an awful feeling to wander into a room and think: “I don’t belong here.” It’s like a flashback to high school. Well, we’re all for avoiding high school-like awkwardness. That’s why we want you to know how Discovery 2009 and Innovators’ Summit are alike and how they’re different. We