Last week I showed how to make tornado charts in JMP and asked for input on the utility of these types of visualization. Here are thumbnails of the two alternative views of US population by age and sex. One commenter pointed out that the back-to-back bars of the tornado style
During the Discovery 2008 conference, I heard a number of requests for tornado charts. Later, I realized a tornado chart is basically a horizontal, stacked bar chart with one negative variable and one positive variable, which is something JMP 7 can already handle. They're also called back-to-back charts, comparative histograms
It’s Monday, and I’m back in my office, having spent most of last week in Las Vegas participating in our Voice of the Customer (VOC) seminar. I’m spending my morning debriefing – sharing insights with colleagues; writing up a trip summary; filling out my expense report. I can knock that
Check out the article on JMP in the new issue of sascom magazine. It’s lean on words and big on visuals. You’ll see a variety of graphs created in JMP showing how the software helps answer and explore questions from a range of industries and organizations: pharmaceutical, marketing, public policy,
The inspiration for our latest data story – on using JMP for fantasy baseball – came from Lou Valente, one of our product managers and an ardent New York Yankees fan. Lou is a synthetic organic chemist, a Six Sigma Black Belt and a passionate practitioner of design of experiments.
Searching for a way to understand your business data better? JMP may be the perfect match – no flowers required! Check out our new interactive data story about a fictional candy maker. It shows you – step by step – how JMP joins together data from different sources, helps you
What are your customers saying? To find out, some companies are employing Voice of the Customer research and JMP software, according to an article in Quality Digest. Voice of the Customer (VOC) research is for finding out what attracts customers to a company and drives them away from its competitors.
Most of us who brave Midwest winters pursuing steelhead trout – the ocean-going form of rainbow trout – already know that you have to pay your dues. It’s well worth the effort when we achieve a solid hook set into the awesome power of the famed silver torpedoes. So, how
If physicists can have their superposition magic, then so can statisticians. Suppose that you have lots of points across three variables in three groups. You need to count the number of points in each group. But you don't know which group each point comes from. And, by the way, each
The JMP Scripting Guide provides a sample script for comparing two similar data tables. For trickier cases, you can export the tables as text and use an external text diff tool. When there aren't too many columns, you can also try a visual comparison in JMP. I recently ran across