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John Sall
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Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, SAS

John Sall leads the JMP business unit at SAS and remains the chief architect of JMP statistical discovery software. JMP has been a part of SAS since the first version of JMP was launched in 1989, bringing interactive data visualization and analysis to the desktop.

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Wide data discriminant analysis

With multivariate methods, you have to do things differently when you have wide (many thousands of columns) data. The Achilles heel for the traditional approaches for wide data is that they start with a covariance matrix, which grows with the square of the number of columns. Genomics research, for example,

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Handling outliers at scale

In an earlier blog post, we looked at cleaning up dirty data in categories. This time, we look at cleaning dirty data in the form of outliers for continuous columns. In industry, it’s not unusual to have most of your values in a narrow range (for example between .1 and

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Accessing data at scale from databases

Many JMP users get their data from databases. A few releases ago, we introduced an interactive wizard import dialog to make it easier to import from text files. In a subsequent release, we created a feature that lets you import Web page tables into JMP data tables. In JMP 11,

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Cleaning categories at scale with Recode

Data entered manually is usually not clean and consistent. Even when data is entered by multiple-choice fields rather than by text-entry fields, it might need additional work when it is combined with data that may not use the same categories across sources. Sometimes the same categories are spelled differently, abbreviated

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Flow and Frontier in JMP 12

Long lists of improvements go into each new version of our software, and usually there are one or two themes that characterize the release. JMP 12 launches this week, and the themes of this new version are flow and frontier. By flow, I mean workflow, the way we can smooth

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“The desktop computer is dead” and other myths

The desktop or laptop is now in decline, squeezed from one side by mobile platforms and from the other side by the cloud. As a developer of desktop software, I believe it is time to address the challenges to our viability. Is software for the desktop PC now the living

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Big real data is different from big simulated data: Benchmarking

To benchmark computer performance on statistical methods with big data, we can just generate random data and measure performance on that, right? Well, it could be that simulated data may not act the same as real data. Let’s find out. Logistic Regression Suppose that we are benchmarking logistic regression. So

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