JMP 11 has many data visualization updates, and a few of them are featured in the following graph of solar array data. Can you identify the new features? Before giving the answers, I’ll mention a few other prominent JMP 11 features, some of which we’ll blog more about when JMP
I spent the long Independence Day weekend volunteering at the USA Ultimate US Open, held in Raleigh, NC, this year. My main job was scorekeeper, though I also did some field setup. The hardest part was just standing in the sun all day, but that was better than rainstorms like we
Analytics and visualizations certainly played a prominent role in this year's presidential election coverage. I've been on the lookout for new visualizations, but the flawed red-blue colored national map (aka a choropleth map) still rules. Here's a typical map (from PBS): What's the flaw? As a colleague was asked by
Last month, I submitted an entry to Stephen Few's dashboard competition. He supplied data for one teacher's class and asked for a dashboard that the teacher could use to "rapidly and effectively monitor the performance of her students for the purpose of helping them improve their mathematics skills." I think
“Once you can define a problem, it’s a matter of looking for the right techniques and right methodologies to apply to it. And, there are many, many, many methodologies out there. The question is really: Can you pick the right one? And oftentimes that depends on: Did you define the problem in the
Let's face it, big data means lots of points. On the rare occasion when JMP data analysis software creates a graph that displays large areas of dense data, consider using the transparency setting to decrease the saturation of the individual points. In my latest "Have You Tried" video (1:22), you
Consumers Union publishes a report called “Fuel economy vs. performance” in which the organization provides a table of data to “prove” that “You don't always have to give up engine performance in return for good fuel economy.” While I greatly appreciate having the raw data, a graphic visualization would go
Koren Ichihara is a psychologist, not a statistician. But she took the stage Monday at Predictive Analytics World in Chicago to talk about the value of analytics in her job as Senior Analyst for HR Analytics at Sears Holdings Corp. With 4,000 stores, 250,000 employees and a corporate family that
I've always enjoyed programming contests. I was a regular contestant and sometimes winner in MacTech magazine's Programmer's Challenge in the '90s where the fastest code wins, and I've been a longtime participant and now part-time administrator at Project Euler, where only correctness matters. For the past couple years, I've been
When I was at the JMP Discovery Summit last year, several people asked me, “What’s a three-way chart and why would I need one?” Not everyone needs one, but some might. In this blog post, I’ll tell you more about them and why you might want to use them. The