Last week I showed how to make tornado charts in JMP and asked for input on the utility of these types of visualization. Here are thumbnails of the two alternative views of US population by age and sex. One commenter pointed out that the back-to-back bars of the tornado style
“Discovery,” the new name for the annual event formerly known as the JMP User Conference, seems like an appropriate moniker. At yesterday’s opening session, I ran across conference attendees who are using interactive JMP software from SAS in some pretty amazing ways. There’s the greenhouse gas specialist from the University
The most common question we get regarding Stephen Few's white paper and webcast on visualizing change is about the scripts for showing the connected trails in bubble plots. Often the existing bubble trails are overlapping, so the progression is clear, but when the bubble trails are spaced out it can
JMP 7 makes it possible to share menu customizations by exporting and importing menus or submenus (see Part 1 and Part 2 of Richard Potter's blog entries on menu customization). I recently posted a menu customization (.jmpmenu file) to JMP Extras that provides a place to put small add-ons. It's
A few weeks ago, researchers at Institut Ruđer Bošković in Croatia announced a Quantum Random Bit Generator Service. JMP uses a very good Mersenne Twister psuedo-random number generator, but if you want to play with true random numbers, I've uploaded a JMP data table comparing four generators and including a
JMP has long had the Internet Open command in the file menu, and similar functionality is available through JSL in JMP 7. Specifically, you can now pass a URL to the Open and Load Text File operators. Here's an example that reads crop data from the USDA site. The result
In addition to more color options in the user interface, JMP 7 also adds more robust color control in JSL. JMP's encoding of palette colors as positive numbers has been expanded to encode 24-bit colors as negative numbers. Numbers representing colors in this way are called JSL color values. All
The most prominent color change for JMP 7 is the histogram color. Feedback from users and experts told use that the bright green of JMP of old put too much emphasis on the bars themselves at the expense the overall shape and other adornments, such as fitted distribution curves. 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
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