There were probably more state and national polls of the 2012 election for President of the United States than ever before. Despite this, many pundits were shocked by the election result. Most national polls showed the two candidates' expected vote percentages within each other's margin of error. As result, many commentators viewed the presidential
Analytics and visualizations certainly played a prominent role in this year's presidential election coverage. I've been on the lookout for new visualizations, but the flawed red-blue colored national map (aka a choropleth map) still rules. Here's a typical map (from PBS): What's the flaw? As a colleague was asked by
Customers often ask us whether it is possible to create report templates that will automatically open with the results of the most recent analyses performed in JMP. Not only is this possible, it is most likely easier than you think. Briefly, here are the steps that must be taken to
A forest plot (Figure 1) is a convenient way to graphically display several confidence or credible intervals and is often used in meta-analysis. Here, the x-axis represents the treatment effect between two interventions while the y-axis refers to the individual studies from which the intervals are obtained, or to various consensus intervals derived
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had several customers ask how they can more easily manage and deploy a collection of JMP scripts, particularly in the case where an internal development team may periodically release new versions of some or all of the scripts. If you find yourself asking the
Now and then, we put on seminars that focus on showing people how to reduce costs by using visual analytics. These popular seminars are coming to Omaha, Nebraska, on Oct. 15 and the St. Louis, Missouri, area on Oct. 17. I spoke with the two guys who will be presenting at
I hope you are subscribed to the monthly JMP Newswire newsletter. If not, below is what we sent out to subscribers for October. We keep the newsletter short, with just three or four key stories for JMP users. One of those stories is always a helpful tip we call "Have
We held our inaugural JMP User Forum for the North of England in the one of the most prestigious venues, the Sage Conference Centre. This wonderful building sits like a gleaming eye above the southern bank of the River Tyne, looking northward towards Newcastle's historic centre. And it was in
Almost 40 leading analysts from financial services, marketing, R&D and the public sector gathered together in SAS' Manchester, UK, office to find out how you can build better statistical models, faster and easier. Sam Gardner, the global technical lead for JMP Pro, kicked off the seminar on 25 Sept. with
At the recent JMP Discovery Summit, I overheard a conversation between a professor and one of the JMP developers, Clay Barker. The professor was interested in understanding tools available for generating distributions in JMP. My first thought (although I was just a fly on the wall) was to suggest the