“The software you use not only shapes what you learn from your data; it shapes the questions you ask!” -- Tom Treynor, Director, Zymergen The Beyond Spreadsheets blog series shows how JMP customers are augmenting their tools and processes for exploratory data analysis to make breakthrough discoveries. The series features
“Spreadsheets are familiar tools, which are relatively simple to use. However, the downside is that they result in fragmented thinking.” -- Ken Franklin, Performance Measurement Program Manager, Highway Division of Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) JMP customers use an array of tools and processes for exploratory data analysis to make
The following map appeared in an article titled "Where Same-Sex Couples Live" in the Upshot section of The New York Times shortly after the US Supreme Court decision ruled that the Constitution grants the right to same-sex marriage throughout the US. The map coloring shows the proportion of same-sex couples
I’ve been asked three times this year about how to make a graph in JMP with an axis break. Before I show how, I want to ask “Why?” The obvious answer to “Why?” is “to show items with very different values in one graph,” but that’s a little unsatisfying. I
One of the marvels of the Internet is the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Started 50 years ago by Neil J. A. Sloane (pic) as a graduate student, the repository now contains more than 256,000 integer sequences run by a non-profit OEIS Foundation with Sloane still at the helm. (Aside: I wanted
A couple weeks ago, The Upshot section of The New York Times produced this "glorious" interactive 3-D graph of the last 25 years of US Treasury yield curve data titled "A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts The Economic Future: The Yield Curve." The graph is very appealing at some
I saw the following post recently on Twitter: Eric Jonas @stochastician Mar 16 There’s basically never a reason to start the y-axis of your comparison graph anywhere besides zero. It generated several dissenting replies, including one from me. Coincidentally, I had just reread part of John Tukey's classic book Exploratory
Last year, we launched the #OneLessPie initiative to use Pi Day (March 14 or 3/14) as a catalyst to improve the data visualization landscape. Many experts have criticized pie charts as a poor way to communicate information, and we listed some of the pitfalls of pie charts last year. But
Someone recently asked me about using letters instead of built-in symbols in JMP scatterplots. In case others are wondering the same thing, here's the long answer. In addition to the 32 built-in symbols, you can use any character as a marker for a scatterplot. The easiest way to set a
Kaiser Fung recently critiqued this chart of changes on disposable income. He put forth the idea of using categorized slope graphs instead: How do we do something like that in JMP? We can do paneling and lines with variable color in Graph Builder; we just need to get the data