Russ Wolfinger, the leader of the JMP Genomics project and developer of SAS Proc Mixed, recently was informed that he will be honored this summer as a fellow of the American Statistical Association. One of my best perspectives on Russ Wolfinger's work came when I went to a seminar that
One of those handy, little-known features of JMP that's been around for a while is the "Color or Mark by Column" command in the Rows menu. You pick a column from your data table, and JMP will apply colors or markers to each row based on the row's value for
Though JMP 6 and earlier support full RGB color in most graphics, row state colors used for data marks have been limited to the colors in JMP's general-purpose 65-color palette. With JMP 7, that limitation has been lifted. How do you set row states to colors that are not in
Last week's news had the story from NC State University that dinosaurs probably tasted like chicken, and this week's Discovery Planet episode brought us the vivid scenes of the living snottie cave ceilings of Cueva de Villa Luz, an acid fuming cavern in the Tabasco state of Mexico. So how
During the development of JMP 7, I learned more than I ever wanted to know about color. At one extreme are the physicists studying optics and at another extreme are the biologists exploring color receptors and their connections to the brain. Somewhere in the middle is the study of the
Yesterday at the SAS Global Forum in Orlando, I had the wonderful experience of watching Scott Adams (Dilbert) make a presentation about his life in the corporation and his subsequent career as a cartoonist. Scott is a great speaker, as you might guess from his cartoons. But the talk was
You'd think that in 18 years of employment at SAS I'd have been to SAS Global Forum (nee SUGI) more than twice, but you'd be wrong. I'm a second-timer this year. My first SUGI was also in Orlando at the Dolphin, so as far as I'm concerned, this is the
JMP 7.0 is only a few weeks away now that it has entered the production system. The first release out the door will be for 32-bit Windows on annual license, and the others will follow over the next few months. I am very pleased with the super effort from all