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The first meeting of the newly formed Mid-Atlantic JMP Users Group will be Sept. 16 at Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland. That was one of the announcements at the Discovery 2008 conference (formerly known as the JMP Users Conference) here in Cary, NC, this week. The new group brings
Take part in the JMP choice experiment online, and you'll help determine the look and feel of reports for the upcoming version of JMP. The experiment will show you pairs of JMP reports with different attributes, and you'll select the report you prefer from among each pair. You'll see a
Check out the article on JMP in the new issue of sascom magazine. It’s lean on words and big on visuals. You’ll see a variety of graphs created in JMP showing how the software helps answer and explore questions from a range of industries and organizations: pharmaceutical, marketing, public policy,
My 7-year-old son has been playing the Nintendo racing game “Mario Kart Wii” for a couple of weeks and has commented that not all vehicles – known as karts – are created equal. Some perform better than others and give you an advantage in a race. Players can choose from
Don't dismiss innovation as a fluffy, overused term that businesspeople, politicians and academics throw around. You can define it. You can classify it. And you can even try to quantify it. The federal government has decided that the United States should try to quantify innovation. Why? "The United States today
This Earth Day, I am recommending that friends and family read a new business book: Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World by Gary Hirshberg, who calls himself the "CE-Yo" of Stonyfield Farm, which makes delicious yogurt. In addition to being well-written with lots of great
The ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement, May 5-7 in Houston, is the perfect place to discuss design of experiments (DOE), Visual Six Sigma and Voice of the Customer research. JMP staff will be joining those conversations throughout the conference. If you’re going, come visit our Seeing Is Believing
The inspiration for our latest data story – on using JMP for fantasy baseball – came from Lou Valente, one of our product managers and an ardent New York Yankees fan. Lou is a synthetic organic chemist, a Six Sigma Black Belt and a passionate practitioner of design of experiments.
Are you headed to SAS Global Forum in San Antonio next week? If so, you’ll have lots of chances to check out JMP there: • John Sall, SAS Executive Vice President, will talk about “New Directions in JMP” on Wednesday, March 19, at 8 a.m. • Director of JMP Marketing
Join us for the inaugural meeting of the Great Lakes JMP Users Group on April 1 at the SAS office in Chicago. John Sall, creator of JMP and Executive Vice President of SAS, will be presenting, along with Jeff Hawes, a JMP Systems Engineer. Two JMP users – John Wass