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.
A full house gathered to hear Sam Savage’s latest seminar Risk Visualization: Shining a Light on Uncertainty at the Sheraton New York last Thursday. This diverse audience represented a large cross-section of area leaders and practitioners in the financial, insurance, public, healthcare and academic fields, to name a few. Everyone
Some rare NFL scores, such as 11-10, have made the news recently (Wall Street Journal article), and resident sports expert Bob Hickey thought about looking at the scores in JMP. Pro-Football-Reference has lots of views into the historical scores data but no one place we could find that supplied all
Last week, JMP hosted a Webcast by business visualization expert Stephen Few of Perceptual Edge. Stephen presented his recently published white paper, which explores the power of visualization for predictive analytics. Stephen's white paper explains that predictive analytics are most revealing when they allow us to see how all of
It is not too late to register to watch a live Webcast about predictive analytics by data visualization expert Stephen Few on Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET. Registration is free. Few will explain how to build predictive models that will display information so that our eyes can perceive relationships and
As a follow-up to my previous post on how to get Bubble Plots and Profilers created using JMP 8 into PowerPoint 2007, here's how to do the same thing if you have PowerPoint 2003: 1. Go to View-->Toolbars-->Control Toolbox. 2. Click on the icon that looks like two little tools
Lots of folks are interested in the new functionality in JMP 8, which enables users to embed JMP Bubble Plots and JMP Profilers in other applications. Here's a quick lesson in getting these JMP visualizations into PowerPoint 2007 in a few easy steps: 1. Create your Bubble Plot or Profiler.
This blog post was written by a blogger who is no longer at SAS Frequently, statisticians have to act like doctors. We see statistical reports that try to describe something: how fast rumors spread based on how large a company is, or the relationship between nitrogen content and crop yield.
One of the discussion topics that generated a lot of interest in my Discovery 2008 conference session on Presentation Quality Graphics was the use of special effects such as adding a third dimension to two-dimensional plots. Conventional wisdom in the data visualization community is that these effects add no value
An article in DM Review magazine, titled "Beyond the Bar Chart," explains how data visualization helps businesses. "Strong visualization should simplify insights. It should get you to notice, focus, investigate and act. And it should give your organization a competitive advantage by allowing you to act faster," writes Tammi Kay