For the fifth consecutive year, JMP is sponsoring AP Statistics teacher workshops during the summer break. These workshops are designed for those who want to employ data analysis software in their AP Stat course and who have taught the course at least twice. Two sessions are offered this summer, at
In a previous post, I wrote how pedigree might be used to help predict outcomes of horse races. In particular, I discussed a metric called the Dosage Index (DI), which appeared to be a leading indicator of success (at least historically). In this post, I want to introduce the Center
In a world filled with jargon, it’s refreshing to hear from a subject-matter expert who can communicate in a direct and uncomplicated fashion – so that even a layperson would understand. You could say this is Randall Munroe’s mission. Munroe is masterful at using math, science and comics to make
Dr. Karen Copeland will be our featured guest on Analytically Speaking on June 8. She is the owner of Boulder Statistics, a successful consultancy to a wide array of industry sectors around the world — medical device, diagnostics, chemicals, marketing, environmental, consumer and food products, pharmaceuticals, and web analytics, among
Recreating graphs is a hobby of mine. It both helps me test the limits of JMP and sharpens my own data handling and visualization skills. This time, there was a third benefit: finding a significant data error in the published chart. I recently saw this interesting mosquito trends chart as
I’ve posted here in the JMP Blog about the American Marketing Association’s Advanced Research Techniques (ART) Forum and the impressive work that’s presented there every year. As co-chair, I am doubly excited for this year’s conference, which will take place June 26 – 29 in Boston, MA. We had an
Both academically and professionally, more courses are being offered and developed to make more people comfortable with data, analysis and risk assessment. This necessitates some use of statistics, and software is pretty much a tool of the trade. Software — some new, some enhanced, some commercial and some open source
You may have heard that a horse named Nyquist won the Kentucky Derby recently. Nyquist was the favorite going into the race, though he was not without his doubters. Many expert race prognosticators questioned his stamina, and I was curious about the basis for those comments. My due diligence revealed
I'll be leading a pre-conference tutorial on Graph Builder at this year's Discovery Summit conference in Cary. We'll start with the basics and then walk through more advanced ways to create effective visualizations. We did a similar tutorial this spring in Amsterdam, and materials from that course are posted in the JMP
Four times a year, we host Discovery Summit, where scientists, engineers, statisticians and researchers exchange best practices in data exploration, and learn about new and proven statistical techniques. Past attendees have called the event a “best-in-class conference to benchmark best practices in analytics” with sessions that are “immediately relevant to