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Wednesday, November 4. 2009

Discover JMP with New Book in Documentation Set

If you have updated your copy of JMP 8 to 8.0.2, you already have access to a brand new book in the JMP documentation set called Discovering JMP -- though you may not have known it!

To find out a bit more about this new book, I sent a few questions to Jonathan Gatlin, a JMP technical writer who has written several posts for this blog. Here's what you need to know about Discovering JMP.

Arati: What is the book about?
Jonathan: Discovering JMP provides a general overview of JMP software. The chapters cover the following information:

Chapter 1: Introducing JMP – basic concepts like what is a JMP platform, and how JMP is different from Excel.
Chapter 2: Preparing, interacting with, and summarizing your data.
Chapter 3: Visualizing your data – using graphics to explore your data.
Chapter 4: Analyzing your data – looking at distributions, relationships, and models.
Chapter 5: Customizing JMP – saving JMP results, creating JSL scripts, and setting preferences.
Chapter 6: Special JMP features – connecting JMP with SAS, the automatic update feature, and showing interactive results outside of JMP.

Arati: Why did you and the documentation team write it?
Jonathan: We wrote this book to assist new JMP users in getting started quickly with JMP. The examples should give the user a good start on understanding navigation through JMP, as well as an introduction to analyzing data with the most commonly used JMP platforms. We also wanted to provide a general purpose quick start book for international markets. We plan to translate this book into all the supported JMP languages.

Arati: How is it different from the other JMP books?
Jonathan: Discovering JMP is one of five books in the JMP documentation set. The other books provide complete details on all of JMP’s platforms and features. For example, the Statistics and Graphics Guide provides a full description of all statistical and graphical features in JMP. The purpose of Discovering JMP is not to give complete details, but to introduce the user to some commonly used JMP platforms and to provide simple examples of each.

Arati: Who is the intended audience for the book?
Jonathan: Discovering JMP is written to introduce JMP to a new user. It assumes the reader has no knowledge of statistics or JMP. The book will be useful to anyone who needs to learn JMP, whether that person is a statistician, researcher, or business analyst.

Arati: How can JMP users find the new book?
Jonathan: This book is available with JMP 8.0.2, and can be found with the other books at the JMP install location, usually at C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP\8\Support Files English\Documentation. You can also download a PDF of the book from the JMP Documentation page on our Web site.

Posted by Arati Bechtel in JMP 8, Technical Support at 10:29 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Monday, June 9. 2008

Tip for Saving JMP Reports: Save the Data, too!

If you ever called or e-mailed a problem to JMP Technical Support, you may have been in contact with Duane Hayes. Duane manages JMP Technical Support for SAS. We recently discussed a tip that also may be helpful when sharing JMP reports with colleagues.

Duane: People often send us JMP reports, .JRP files, so we can recreate and solve their problem. They don't realize that the .JRP file is just a script, like the one shown below. To recreate the problem we also need the data table saved as a .JMP file.

Open("C:\Documents and Settings\hayes\Desktop\snapdragon");


Oneway(
	Y( :Y ),
	X( :Soil ),
	Block( :Block ),
	Means( 1 ),
	Box Plots( 0 ),
	Mean Diamonds( 1 )
);

Gail: What should they send you instead?

Duane: Nothing instead. Something in addition. They must also send us the data - the .JMP file. We then save the .JMP file and edit the Open statement in the .JRP file to point to the location where we saved the data file. JMP users need to remember this when sharing reports with colleagues.

Gail: So, what must they do to share report files?

Duane: Users have three options. Option 1: Put the data in a shared directory to which their colleague has access, run the analyses and then save the .JRP (report) file to that same directory. That way, when the colleague opens the .JRP file from JMP, everything will work. Option 2: Send the .JRP file and the .JMP file to the colleague, who saves the .JMP file to a location of choice. In the .JRP (report) file, the colleague then edits the Open statement to point to that location.

Gail: And I bet Option 3 is to create a JMP project.

Duane: Right. This allows users to bundle and share everything related to their analyses, including documents, PowerPoint presentations, animations and more. Richard Potter described this in detail in his blog Projects in JMP 7. Projects are really in line with the spirit of JMP, which lets you build upon one analysis with another, or subset data, without having to start the analysis anew. Projects are a great way to leverage work you have already done and make it accessible to someone else for review or the next step in the analysis.

Posted by Gail Massari in JMP - General, JMP 7, Technical Support at 10:30 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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