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Referring to JMP as "an old friend," statistician John Wass reviewed JMP 8 for Scientific Computing and calls it a "major upgrade." The review includes several visualizations and covers many of the major new features of JMP 8. Wass concludes: "This latest version is stunning in the quality of the
NOTE: This entry comes to the JMP Blog from our colleague Jerome Bryssinck of SAS Belgium. Jerome had seen Jeff Perkinson's examples of basketball analytics using JMP and created his own example using football (or soccer) data. In response to comments from readers, Jerome updated his model on May 26,
A recent article in SEEDMAGAZINE.COM laments that many people misuse and rely too heavily on static data visualizations, such as the pie chart. "The pie chart is intended to display proportions of a whole within a single, small data set, but overzealous Excel users dump in large data sets or
Six regional JMP users groups have formed over the past year or so, and it looks like Atlanta may get the next one. JMP user Kevin Holston is spreading the word that he'd like to start a group there. To join Kevin in creating the group, send him a message
Good news: JMP 8 for Macintosh begins shipping April 28. So Mac users will soon have access to all of the new capabilities of JMP 8, like exporting Bubble Plots and Profiler for use in PowerPoint and Web pages; designing and analyzing choice studies; conducting more types of reliability analysis;
You know Malcolm Gladwell's books: Outliers, Blink and The Tipping Point. All three hit No. 1 on The New York Times best-sellers list. Now you can hear Malcolm Gladwell live and in person. JMP has lined him up as the keynote speaker for the Discovery and Innovators' Summit conferences in
The brand-new JMP track at SAS Global Forum -- a full day of user presentations -- was the subject of a previous post. But the JMP track is just one way to learn about JMP at the annual SAS users conference, to be held March 22-25 this year in D.C.
The first in the Government Communities in Collaboration Breakfast series is tomorrow at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The series is designed specifically for leaders in federal government agencies to learn how to: Increase efficiency with smaller budgets. Exceed objectives under increased resource constraints through process improvement. Save
The first-ever JMP track will be offered next month in Washington, D.C., at SAS Global Forum, the annual event organized by the SAS Global Users Group, which is open to SAS software users worldwide. The track is called “SAS Presents…JMP” and is scheduled for Monday, March 23, from 10:30 a.m.
You can now follow JMP on Twitter. Find us at JMP_software and receive updates by joining Twitter, a free "microblogging" service. JMP users and others who value data exploration, analytics and data visualization are using Twitter to talk about those topics. We wanted to take part in the discussion, too.