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
Referring to JMP as "an old friend," statistician John Wass reviewed JMP 8 for Scientific Computing and calls it a "major upgrade." The review includes several visualizations and covers many of the major new features of JMP 8. Wass concludes: "This latest version is stunning in the quality of the
Thanks for the enlightening comments to my blog post "I Like 3-D Pie Charts" and for the new graphs. While the bar charts from Joe and John are very nice, I prefer vertical bars because of their connection with the gravity orientation of trees, mountains, buildings and of course cell-phone
NOTE: This entry comes to the JMP Blog from our colleague Jerome Bryssinck of SAS Belgium. Jerome had seen Jeff Perkinson's examples of basketball analytics using JMP and created his own example using football (or soccer) data. In response to comments from readers, Jerome updated his model on May 26,
So you know I’m a faithful left-brained statistician who makes every attempt to adhere to the highest professional standards of data visualization and analysis. Graphics luminaries like Edward Tufte and Stephen Few have made very valuable contributions to the field, and I bow to their wisdom. But I have a
As you may have heard, SAS has a 1 megawatt solar farm in operation. Naturally, I wanted to see what kind of data was available, and it turns out the power output is recorded every 15 minutes, even during the night (who knows -- maybe we'll get some power from
A recent article in SEEDMAGAZINE.COM laments that many people misuse and rely too heavily on static data visualizations, such as the pie chart. "The pie chart is intended to display proportions of a whole within a single, small data set, but overzealous Excel users dump in large data sets or
Now that the University of North Carolina men's basketball team has won the NCAA championship, I've updated the Bubble Plot and Profiler I posted last week using data from the final game. Bubble Plot of Championship Game Profiler for Championship Game
The front page of the Wall Street Journal on March 13 highlighted an "$11 Trillion Hole" and said "Americans See 18% of Wealth Vanish." I looked at the chart, and the 2008 number indeed looked as if it had fallen off a cliff. But then I looked at the rest
Ahhh, springtime in North Carolina, when a young man’s thoughts turn to … basketball. Last weekend, the University of North Carolina Tar Heels advanced to the Final Four for the 18th time by beating the University of Oklahoma. As a Carolina alum, I had a passing interest in the game.