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You may have seen the live blog we produced for the morning plenary sessions on Thursday and Friday , Sept. 25 and 26, at the Innovators' Summit. The afternoon concurrent sessions at the Summit showcased all sorts of fascinating uses of analytics -- from understanding what consumers want in products
The table hosts for the Welcome Dinner each chose a book to be given to their fellow diners. By popular demand, here are the books they selected for the Summit: Sam Savage: Flaw of Averages by Sam Savage Avinash Kaushik: Web Analytics: An Hour a Day by Avinash Kaushik John
Wayne Levin, the President of Predictum in Toronto, offers free podcasts about statistical methods and their application using JMP. The podcasts run 15 to 25 minutes long, and each gets downloaded thousands of time. His company works with JMP and SAS users to improve their productivity through education and the
The inaugural meeting of the Twin Cities JMP Users Group will feature a talk by a Minneapolis-based Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Strong Shih-Chuang Huang. Huang is involved in Six Sigma program implementation for Beckman Coulter worldwide, a manufacturer of biomedical diagnostic systems, reagent tests and supplies. Huang's presentation, "Breakthrough
We've got a new JMP choice experiment up and running online, and we need you to take part in it. This time we're looking for feedback on how the Flash output in JMP 8 should look. The survey will show you 15 pairs of reports in JMP, a pair at
Clark Abrahams -- book author, Chief Financial Architect at SAS and a speaker at the upcoming Innovators' Summit -- testified recently before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Oversight Committee. He was part of a panel of experts who talked about credit scores and the US credit scoring system.
An article in DM Review magazine, titled "Beyond the Bar Chart," explains how data visualization helps businesses. "Strong visualization should simplify insights. It should get you to notice, focus, investigate and act. And it should give your organization a competitive advantage by allowing you to act faster," writes Tammi Kay
You can now register online to attend the inaugural meeting of the Mid-Atlantic JMP Users Group. Here's some key information about this meeting: When: Sept. 16, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Where: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland Who should attend: Anyone in the mid-Atlantic region who uses JMP
Avinash Kaushik, Analytics Evangelist for Google, talked with John Jones of JMP while both were at a conference in June. Here’s part of their 20-minute conversation, which actually included more than five questions and answers. Kaushik’s answers in the Q&A below are just the beginning of his engaging and informative
John Sall and Bradley Jones have a piece in the latest issue of the Joint Newsletter of the SPES and Q&P Sections of the American Statistical Association. Their article has the amusing title "Leptokurtosiphobia: Irrational Fear of Non-Normality." Sall and Jones write that "agonizing over normal probability plots and tests