10 tips for making analytics converts out of your colleagues

From the Analytically Speaking panel discussion this morning — a live webcast I watched with hundreds of other people — I picked up a multitude of strategies for helping co-workers, managers and executives become comfortable with using analytics to inform decision-making. Here are 10 of my favorite tips from that discussion: Start [...]

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Google Docs and the JMP Graph Builder for iPad

Have you had a chance to download the JMP Graph Builder for iPad? If you haven’t, go to the AppStore and download it. It’s free and a great tool for data visualization and exploration, and it’s the best way to view and explore JMP 10 data tables right on your [...]

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JMP Discovery Summit registration open

Reserve your place at Discovery Summit 2012, hosted by JMP. It’s the analytics event of the year, an interactive forum where theories will be challenged, best practices benchmarked and innovative concepts born. This year it’s taking place in the brand new Executive Briefing Center at SAS world headquarters in Cary, [...]

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Business case studies that teach statistics

JMP users may remember UC Denver Professor Marlene Smith for the lively discussion around the poster she presented at JMP Discovery Summit last year: Using JMP to Teach Business Statistics: Cases and Applications. Now you can access 12 of her business case studies. Professor Smith includes a description of each [...]

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How to create an experiment design that is robust to a linear time trend in the response

It is fairly common that experiments run in a time sequence experience linear drift in the response over the course of the experiment. If you randomize the order of the runs, then the effect of this drift will not tend to bias the estimated factor effects, but it will increase [...]

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SAS Global Forum 2012: Wearing different hats

In the 16 years I have been at SAS, I have been fortunate to wear many hats: technical pre-sales, product management, product marketing and even doing a five-month assignment at a large bank in the UK. When you think about what it takes to make discoveries from data and create [...]

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Questions for JMP at SAS Global Forum 2012

The JMP booth was a hub of activity during the first full day of SAS Global Forum 2012. We received a wide range of questions, and I would like to share some of them with you so we can all participate in the global conversation about SAS and its products. Q: [...]

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JMP Demos are Super at SAS Global Forum

The second full day at SAS Global Forum is in the books. One of the most informative ways that users learned about JMP was stopping by the demo floor. Throughout the day, JMP technical experts shared 15-minute Super Demos, where they highlighted new and exciting features in JMP 10.  Topics [...]

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See JMP at SAS Global Forum next week

It is that time of year again, when a contingent of JMP staff head to the biggest gathering of SAS professionals in the world, SAS Global Forum, April 22-25. This year, it’s in Orlando, Florida, and as usual we will be providing lots of good information for SAS users who [...]

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Fundamentals of power analysis in experiment design

When I took my first course in linear models and design of experiments, my professor told the class that the most common question that he encountered in his statistical consulting was, “How many samples do I need [for my results to be statistically significant]?” This question comes out of a [...]

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