Seems like people are starting to discover the new image functionality that was added to JMP 9. And when you are asked the same question by three different people in the same week, you've got to figure it is time for a blog post. The popular question this week is:
May 12 is becoming the annual event for data visualisation, with world-renowned visualisation guru Stephen Few presenting in London on that day for the second year running. It was perfect timing for him to visit the UK, the home of David McCandless, following Stephen's recent blog post that has rocked
The editor of the KD Nuggets newsletter, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D., has attracted quite a number of subscribers over the years with a variety of interesting news items, polls and topics. It's hard to believe he is now posting the 12th annual poll on Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used. Despite
JMP Product Manager Jeff Perkinson presented the April 14 Mastering JMP session, Using Geographic and Custom Maps. I divided his demo into three parts for you to watch at your leisure. By default, JMP installs map files in a Maps directory. Each map consists of two JMP data files with
I have always been interested in studies that rank US cities according to a variety of attributes. It’s one reason I was drawn to the Raleigh, North Carolina, area more than a decade ago. These studies typically rate cities based on income, job growth, taxes, crime, etc. Kiplinger, a Washington,
If you’ve been to the Discovery Summit before, you know it’s not one to miss. Registration is now open for the analytics event of the year, Sept. 13-16 in Denver. If you haven’t attended, consider what you’ll get out of the experience. 10 event takeaways • Breakout presentations from some
One of the biggest challenges for Microsoft Excel users is modifying their Excel spreadsheets so the data can be properly analyzed in JMP. Below is an example of data an Excel user sent me: He asked how he could produce the above graph in JMP. The majority of Excel users
On March 10 in her Mastering JMP live webcast, Dara Hammond demonstrated techniques for visualizing data using dynamic graphics. She shared ways to modify, customize, export and animate graphs; manipulate graph axis settings, points and display characteristics; and use the shape and geographic mapping functions to plot results. As promised,
Everyone who works with multivariate data has dealt with the problem of how to show more than two dimensions at a time on a typical computer display. JMP has many options available for visualizing and analyzing multivariate data, including Scatterplot Matrix, Parallel Coordinates, Clustering and more. Another graphical technique from
If you followed my series of blog posts on background maps in JMP 9, you may have read the blog post titled, All About Background Maps in JMP 9: NASA Server and Web Map Service. In that blog post, I discussed two of the options for background maps that use