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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Supervised binning add-in for predictive modeling

When building a prediction model, there are a variety of ways that we can model the response as a function of our predictors. The Fit Model platform in JMP allows us to model the response as a linear function of our predictors. The Nonlinear platform allows us to model the [...]

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Predictive modelling captures imagination of analytical community in UK

We are holding a seminar on how to build better statistical models on Thursday 10 May, and the number of people who have registered is unprecedented. More than 100 people are planning to attend from a vast array of analytical functions, including banking and insurance, R&D and manufacturing, marketing and [...]

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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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What’s new in JMP training? Categorical data analysis!

The JMP training curriculum is diverse and complex. We offer a range of training for beginners and for advanced users. In addition to our ongoing effort to keep all of the training up to date with new editions, we also create new courses as our user needs evolve. I want [...]

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Holiday book gift ideas for the analytically minded

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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Best practices to abound next week in Windy City

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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Visual analytics and design of experiments for the petroleum industry

I am excited that JMP is going to the Society of Petroleum Engineers ATCE conference for the fourth time in five years. For the past 87 years, ATCE has been the leading technical conference in the Exploration and Production area of the oil and gas industry. JMP is so flexible [...]

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Highlights from my fifth Predictive Analytics World

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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Speeding up exploration with John Sall

Well, Wall Street cares so much about making fast decisions that it is laying dedicated high-speed lines so that the data for program trades can be processed faster and orders executed more quickly. If Wall Street can do all this in milliseconds, won’t it make a difference to you to [...]

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