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Jonah Berger, author of the book "Contagious," gives the final keynote speech of Discovery Summit 2014 in Cary North Carolina. View the live blog.
Discovery Summit 2014 is on! We have the biggest crowd ever for the conference this year. If you're not among that crowd, you can follow some of what's going on here in Cary, North Carolina, via our live coverage page. From this one page, you can see live tweeting (follow
Discovery Summit 2014 starts on Monday, and there's lots going on and much to know about the conference. You can get all that info as well as interactive features in a free app for iOS and Android. For a quick overview of what the app offers, watch this video: With the
As one who works in communication, I was keenly interested to read Contagious:Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger, a Wharton School of Business marketing professor. I enjoyed many of the stories in the book about why ideas, products and information spread, but there were a handful of examples that
We know JMP users are making a difference at their organizations by finding inefficiencies, making discoveries, improving processes, saving money, helping make lives better. Now we'd like you to tell the JMP community about it, at Discovery Summit 2014. The annual Discovery Summit conference is the perfect event to share
Last year was a big year for this blog. We had monthly posts about influential statisticians as part of our celebration of the first-ever International Year of Statistics. We gave previews of JMP 11 and, once the software was released, showed you how to make use of the new features
Happy New Year! The first JMP Newswire newsletter goes out today, and in it we urge you to make 2014 the year you extend your JMP skills into new areas and to greater depths. We have many resources to help you do that, and I'm sharing those resources below. If
All of us at JMP wish you and your family a wonderful holiday! See you in 2014!
Regular readers of this blog know that we are big fans of Kaiser Fung, his blog Junk Charts and his books Numbers Rule Your World and Numbersense. Earlier this fall, I interviewed him about Numbersense, and we gave away copies of that book. If you didn't get a copy of
Here at JMP, we love a good nonfiction book. And if it involves data, numbers, statistics or science, then all the better. I asked my colleagues to share the names of nonfiction books that are quantitative, analytical or scientific that they have enjoyed. Perhaps their ideas will help you find