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James Preiss
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Sr Associate Software Developer

James Preiss joined the JMP development team in 2014 and has worked on data cleaning, JSL scripting and visualization features. He is also interested in computer vision and hardware integration. James holds bachelor's degrees in mathematics and photography from The Evergreen State College.

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Coming in JMP 12: Overhauled Recode for easier data cleaning

Text data cleaning is an unglamorous but important step in statistics and analytics. Manually entered data is full of misspellings, typographical errors and inconsistencies. Even machine-generated data can cause problems if two data sources disagree on formatting. Errors must be fixed before analyzing data, because the tiniest difference makes two