It has been an interesting decade for interactive Web technologies. The original standard, Java applets, was replaced by Flash and AJAX. For a brief time, Silverlight looked like the technology of choice. Now, the industry has consolidated on HTML 5, the interactive evolution of HTML. Interactive HTML can run powerful
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
JMP is all about data exploration, and a big part of exploring is not knowing the questions up front. JMP 11 adds a feature called “transform columns” that allows you to create a temporary computed column within almost any column list in JMP. That means you can create a new
In a recent blog post, I introduced an add-in, the Bubble Shape Editor, that makes it easier to use custom shapes in place of the default circle in Bubble Plot. The add-in takes advantage of JMP's ability to draw shapes based on SVG path specifications. When custom shapes were introduced
Back in August 2012, Laura Higgins, a JMP systems engineer, wrote a great blog post titled “Fighting crime using geospatial analysis in JMP.” In that post, she explores crime data for San Francisco. When she was working on that post, she contacted me and asked if there was a way
We’ve talked about the data. We’ve defined our thresholds for risk. Now it’s time to talk about how you can visualize the safety and quality signals from your ongoing clinical trials. If you want to minimize the impact of quality issues to the data or quickly address any safety concerns
Halloween is here. It’s a time when the weather gets colder and the leaves fall from the trees. A time when kids dress up in fun costumes and go trick-or-treating. A time when we start thinking about how to spend the holidays with our family and friends. And if you’re like me,
“Visually, it’s easier to present uncertainty.” – Nate Silver About a year ago, I approached the chair-elect of the Biopharmaceutical Section of the American Statistical Association and asked "How can I be involved?" He replied that there was a podcasting initiative they were hoping to get off the ground, and
Are you a Mac user and need to create publication-quality graphics of JMP graphs or reports? With JMP 11, it is now even easier and can be done with the help of standard applications that come with MacOS. JMP developers have completely rewritten the graphics engine on the Mac version
In preparation for the federal elections in Germany, the Federal Returning Officer has an interesting and important task: He needs to redraw the constituencies such that the number of constituencies in the individual Länder (states) corresponds as closely as possible to their share of the population. The population of a