Readers in the US may have seen ads for the Lilly Pulitzer collection at Target. On Sunday, April 19, this collection launched with many Target stores having queues that resembled those for Black Friday sales. Most products sold out within a few minutes of the store openings. Online was no
I have already posted in my fitness and food blog series about automating the import of my BodyMedia activity and food log data files via JSL and visualizing my data in JMP. I presented an e-poster on this project at the 2014 Discovery Summit US conference, which I've posted in the JMP
One of the marvels of the Internet is the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS). Started 50 years ago by Neil J. A. Sloane (pic) as a graduate student, the repository now contains more than 256,000 integer sequences run by a non-profit OEIS Foundation with Sloane still at the helm. (Aside: I wanted
A couple weeks ago, The Upshot section of The New York Times produced this "glorious" interactive 3-D graph of the last 25 years of US Treasury yield curve data titled "A 3-D View of a Chart That Predicts The Economic Future: The Yield Curve." The graph is very appealing at some
I saw the following post recently on Twitter: Eric Jonas @stochastician Mar 16 There’s basically never a reason to start the y-axis of your comparison graph anywhere besides zero. It generated several dissenting replies, including one from me. Coincidentally, I had just reread part of John Tukey's classic book Exploratory
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to speak at a National Wear Red Day lunch-and-learn at SAS. I was invited to share my data and experiences as we marked a day devoted to raising awareness of the sobering statistics about cardiovascular disease risk among women. Heart attack and stroke are responsible for one of every
JMP creator John Sall, who is also SAS Co-Founder and EVP, gives the opening keynote speech of Discovery Summit Europe 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Sall is joined by Chris Gotwalt, Director of Statistical R&D for JMP, in a speech titled "Addressing the Challenges of Data Variety." The speech marks the
I've blogged quite a lot recently about using Graph Builder to visualize my diet and fitness data, and you can see all posts in this series. While creating my Discovery Summit 2014 e-poster about this project, I significantly broadened my skills as a JMP user. This was the first time I wrote a
JMP is used to analyze and visualize data with a wide variety of types and relationships. The term mixture is used to describe a collection of variables that sum to a constant value. Mixtures may be observed in gases, liquids or solids, or they may be used as part of
Last year, we launched the #OneLessPie initiative to use Pi Day (March 14 or 3/14) as a catalyst to improve the data visualization landscape. Many experts have criticized pie charts as a poor way to communicate information, and we listed some of the pitfalls of pie charts last year. But