The International Year of Statistics is nearly at an end. All year long, we've been celebrating statisticians. We've also been giving out sets of coffee/tea mugs with cute statistical puns. Now it's time to bring these two things together. The first 10 readers who leave a comment saying which of
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, Kaiser Fung has a new book out: Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage. I've read it and enjoyed it. It's helped me become a more critical consumer of analytical information, which is the aim of Kaiser's book. Here's an excerpt
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com gives the final keynote speech of Discovery Summit 2013 in San Antonio. View the live blog.
As part of our celebration of the International Year of Statistics, we've asked five esteemed panelists to share their thoughts and stories about the value of statistical methods and statistics as a profession. View the live blog.
Richard D. De Veaux is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. De Veaux delivers the keynote speech on the second full day of Discovery Summit 2013. View the live blog.
Note: The on-demand version of this webcast that was shown live on Sept. 10 is available on demand. Today's the day. JMP 11 is here! Over the past couple of months, you've heard from JMP R&D and technical experts about what's coming in lots of different areas in JMP 11:
Greetings from San Antonio, where many of us from JMP will be for the next several days! Discovery Summit is about to start, and I'm excited about our keynote speeches, as well as the many presentations and posters about the powerful and creative ways people use JMP. I look forward
Discovery Summit attendees: The mobile app for the conference is ready for you to download it! This year we've got an app for Android smartphones as well as for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. And if you don't have one of these devices, you can use the mobile web version
JMP 11, the latest version of JMP, will be released next week, on Sept. 10. Since JMP is such a visual product, one of the best ways to learn what JMP 11 can do is by watching one (or all) of the upcoming webcasts. Here's a quick rundown: John Sall,
Kaiser Fung, author of the popular blog Junk Charts, has a new book out called Numbersense: How to Use Big Data to Your Advantage. It's a fascinating and highly accessible read, full of humor and even some graphs derived from JMP. I enjoyed learning about such things as the U.S.