Making better predictive models quickly with JMP

Aashish Majethia
Aashish Majethia|May 16, 2012

There are many ways of generating a model such as basic linear regression, decision trees, neural nets, and generalized linear models. JMP Pro can be a great tool for data miners, those who want to get more information out of their data and build more accurate predictive models. It incorporates [...]

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New videos to grow your JMP skills

Gail Massari
Gail Massari|February 22, 2012

New demos from live Mastering JMP webcasts are now available for viewing at your leisure. I divided each webcast into two or three videos. Registration is required to view the videos. Here’s a hint: After you register, bookmark the page from which you launched the videos so that you can [...]

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Holiday book gift ideas for the analytically minded

Anne Milley
Anne Milley|November 21, 2011

The holidays are nearing, and you may have a person with a quantitative bent on your gift list. Perhaps that person is an analyst, engineer, scientist or statistician who works in an organization that is ramping up its analytic efforts. Well, here’s help with your holiday shopping! It’s a list [...]

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Need tips on modeling high-dimensional data?

Gail Massari
Gail Massari|November 3, 2011

At the Oct. 13, 2011, Mastering JMP webcast, Systems Engineer Aashish Majethia demonstrated how to use JMP and JMP Pro to model high-dimensional data. These techniques are useful when you have a lot of indicators (columns) but few observations (rows), a situation that makes modeling using linear regression techniques difficult. [...]

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Best practices to abound next week in Windy City

Amy Bullock
Amy Bullock|October 25, 2011

Whether you steer strategy from the C-suite or execute operations from your cubical, you can use analytics to transform your organization.  I have continued to gain greater appreciation for the value of analytics at the many conferences that JMP has participated in this fall, including Predictive Analytics World in New [...]

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Highlights from my fifth Predictive Analytics World

Anne Milley
Anne Milley|October 21, 2011

Having been an early supporter of PAW, I am happy to see this conference flourish. It was a pleasure to see so many friends and colleagues who are such an enthusiastic and loyal part of this community of hands-on practitioners. Eric Siegel, Program Chair, kicked it off with the hot [...]

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Meet discussion leader Gordon Linoff

Amy Bullock
Amy Bullock|August 23, 2011

Gordon Linoff has been a self-starter in many ways. To name a few, he, along with Michael Berry, founded Data Miners Inc. in 1998. Gordon was also one of the first experts who SAS looked to in the 1990s to start the ever-popular SAS Business Knowledge Series. He has consulted for a wide [...]

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Sampling data to build, validate and test predictive models when target event occurs infrequently

Malcolm Moore
Malcolm Moore|July 13, 2011

When building models to predict a binary outcome variable, such as respond or not respond, the proportion in the desired category (respond) may be low. For example, in direct mail campaigns the response rate is often 1% or lower. In such cases, a predictive model is likely to learn how [...]

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More 1-page JMP guides now available

Brady Brady
Brady Brady|July 11, 2011

As data volumes continue to grow, analysts, business users and students must rely on increasingly sophisticated techniques to extract meaningful, actionable information from their data. JMP is proof that they won’t have to sacrifice ease of use for predictive power: With JMP, popular data mining and forecasting tools are accessible [...]

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Watch on demand: Analytic Center of Excellence webcast

Anne Milley
Anne Milley|July 7, 2011

If you missed my live SAS TALKS webinar on June 23 titled Consider an Analytic Center of Excellence (and Other Ways to Create More Analytic Bandwidth), you can now watch it on demand. In addition, the slides I presented are now available to any who are interested in Analytic Centers [...]

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