This week we celebrate the 35th anniversary of SAS user group meetings with SGF 2010 (formerly known as SUGI). SAS has exhibited extraordinary growth and success since that first meeting of five users in 1975. Over this time span, we have also seen major advancements in the field of modern
At every live Webcast, we get questions about how the presenter circles information in JMP. This tool, called the Laser Pointer, lets you temporarily draw attention to parts of a report. The colored line of the laser pointer persists until you release the mouse button. Laser Pointer works on JMP
In a recent live Webcast for faculty and students, I showed teaching modules developed by Amy Froelich (Iowa State University) and Bill Duckworth (Creighton University) that were programmed by Wayne Levin and Brian McFarlane (Predictum Inc.). Here I show how to invoke these modules (which are encrypted JMP scripts) or
It’s that time of year for academics, the start of a new semester. The JMP academics team is busy preparing for the academic Webcasts we deliver at the beginning of each semester. We thought it would be interesting to share with you our results from our fall Webcasts. We delivered
JMP user Peter Reich, a Regents Professor and Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, is featured in the December 2009 issue of Science magazine for his long-term experiment on biodiversity and global change. For more than a decade, Reich has used JMP to investigate the interactive effects
In the past two years, close to 1000 professors and students have attended JMP workshops held by Melodie Rush on U.S. college campuses. As the 2009-2010 academic year approaches, Mia Stephens joins the workshop circuit. Mia, a new member of our JMP academic team, is an applied statistician who is
In case you missed my Twitter update about it last week, a JMP tree map created by Daniel Arneman of UNC Energy Services was featured in a recent data visualization report by Intelligent Enterprise titled "Seeing Connections: Visualization Makes Sense of Data." The report, by Seth Grimes, is available as
Would you walk off a bridge to better understand the nature of visualization? I did: yesterday at Duke University’s DIVE, thanks to Rachael Brady, director of the Virtualization Technology Group. In this six-sided virtual reality theater, two of my colleagues and I were treated to an experience for the senses.
Arati Bechtel and I attended Science Online '09, which JMP sponsored for the third year running. The small size (capped at 200 attendees) and session format encouraged discussions rather than lectures, which helped everyone see from lots of perspectives. The issue of open access publishing was a central theme that
I have always wanted to be a high school math teacher but instead I’ve worked on a dairy farm, managed apartments, worked construction, been a bank auditor and made a living as a SAS programmer. But about 11 years ago my career took a fortuitous turn when SAS hired me