Which of the following statements about our next featured guest for Analytically Speaking is NOT true? First, let me help you in revealing that we are very fortunate to be joined on April 18 by Dick De Veaux, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Williams College (and expert in applied statistics).
Award-winning authors Brenda Ramírez and José G. Ramírez were our guests for the March installment of Analytically Speaking. If you missed their webcast, it’s now available on demand. During the interview, they discussed how traditional quality techniques – when updated with the latest advances in analytics and data visualization –
Drag-and-drop is one of the slick new behaviors to come out of application design in the last few years. Dragging is the process of selecting an object and carrying it between applications. Dropping is the process of laying the object down in the new application. If you think about what you are
"Curiosity and creativity are arguably inborn, but intuition for data comes from time spent exploring it," says Michael Berry, Business Intelligence Director at TripAdvisor. Berry and Gordon Linoff, who together co-founded the consultancy Data Miners Inc. and co-wrote the book Data Mining Techniques for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management,
Today, I'm going to tour you through finding unique values in the columns of your data set. You might be thinking that since JMP handles such massive data, then this is going to be a real journey. "Oh, no! I'm going to need emotional preparation, extreme physical conditioning, and perhaps a dedicated moment
Last month, I submitted an entry to Stephen Few's dashboard competition. He supplied data for one teacher's class and asked for a dashboard that the teacher could use to "rapidly and effectively monitor the performance of her students for the purpose of helping them improve their mathematics skills." I think
These days, we are always hearing about time: We are having the time of our lives! Phew, just in the nick of time! We are so ahead of our time! Even in JMP, time is of essence. Sometimes, when importing data into JMP, your time or date data might come
Koren Ichihara is a psychologist, not a statistician. But she took the stage Monday at Predictive Analytics World in Chicago to talk about the value of analytics in her job as Senior Analyst for HR Analytics at Sears Holdings Corp. With 4,000 stores, 250,000 employees and a corporate family that
What’s the most time-consuming part of any analytics process? Frequently, it’s collecting the data from an array of sources before analysis can begin. In today’s multiparadigm world, that can mean using many programs such as SAS, Excel and R. JMP can help. It “plays well with others,” so you can
On Nov. 16, Chris Gotwalt will present a new webcast on Best Practices in Model Comparison, which will include a sneak peek of JMP 10 (due to be released this upcoming March). I recently caught up with Chris to find out how he was enjoying his new role at JMP, what