The second graph of my Discovery Summit 2014 poster summarized my meal logging habits. I made this graph while trying to identify patterns in my summary data that could alert me to days with missing or incomplete daily food logs. Initially, I created a point chart in Graph Builder to
Before finalizing my Discovery Summit 2014 poster on my personal diet and fitness data, I asked my colleague Xan Gregg (lead developer of Graph Builder in JMP) to review my poster draft. By the time Xan and I sat down at my computer, I had created several graphs that I
During the The Scale-Up of Chemical Processes conference in Brussels earlier this year, the organizers and I decided to do an experiment using JMP. Of course, the experiment had to involve beer tasting! We had 24 participants for the experiment. We used eight Belgian beer brands for testing and planned
I ended my previous blog post at the point in my JMP Discovery Summit project when I realized the extent of food item name redundancy across my nearly four years of food logs collected with the BodyMedia® Activity Manager app. While I knew I had eaten differently prepared varieties of certain foods, the replication was
In my previous blog post, I described how I imported my BodyMedia® Activity Summary data files from Excel into JMP. Today, I will share how I automated importing nearly four years of my BodyMedia® food logs into JMP. I have also uploaded an add-in to the JMP File Exchange that
In an earlier blog post, I introduced the topic of my JMP Discovery Summit 2014 e-poster titled “Analysis of Personal Diet and Fitness Data With JMP” and shared my interests in quantified self (QS) analysis projects. For my poster project, I exported two different types of data files from the
Jonah Berger, author of the book "Contagious," gives the final keynote speech of Discovery Summit 2014 in Cary North Carolina. View the live blog.
Discovery Summit 2014 is on! We have the biggest crowd ever for the conference this year. If you're not among that crowd, you can follow some of what's going on here in Cary, North Carolina, via our live coverage page. From this one page, you can see live tweeting (follow
Discovery Summit 2014 starts on Monday, and there's lots going on and much to know about the conference. You can get all that info as well as interactive features in a free app for iOS and Android. For a quick overview of what the app offers, watch this video: With the
As one who works in communication, I was keenly interested to read Contagious:Why Things Catch On, by Jonah Berger, a Wharton School of Business marketing professor. I enjoyed many of the stories in the book about why ideas, products and information spread, but there were a handful of examples that