"Curiosity and creativity are arguably inborn, but intuition for data comes from time spent exploring it," says Michael Berry, Business Intelligence Director at TripAdvisor. Berry and Gordon Linoff, who together co-founded the consultancy Data Miners Inc. and co-wrote the book Data Mining Techniques for Marketing, Sales, and Customer Relationship Management,
For those of you who haven’t tired of election results (can the three of you please gather around this blog post?), I came upon voting data by state from the inception of the Republican Party (1850s) to today. I thought I’d first take a look and see how each state has
“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
I’ve been looking into crime − 9,134 rows of crime to be exact. After reading about geospatial analysis of crime in The Police Chief magazine, I decided to do this in JMP. So, I downloaded all of the individual crime incidents from April 2012 from the San Francisco government data website. Then, I began
The JMP booth was a hub of activity during the first full day of SAS Global Forum 2012. We received a wide range of questions, and I would like to share some of them with you so we can all participate in the global conversation about SAS and its products. Q:
Each quarter, JMP systems engineers present 11 Mastering JMP live webcasts, which are intended to help users develop and expand their JMP skills. Some webcasts are available as on-demand videos now. We'll roll out the others after the upcoming live events take place. Did you miss one of the live webcasts? Register
Are you based in Europe? Join our JMP Explorers seminar series in March in London, Paris and Cologne. This complimentary thought leadership seminar series features reliability experts who will highlight trends in statistical assessment and share techniques to reach maximum productivity in your analyses: Bill Meeker, PhD, is a
New demos from live Mastering JMP webcasts are now available for viewing at your leisure. I divided each webcast into two or three videos. Registration is not required to view the videos. Jami Hampton’s videos on Preparing Your Data for Analysis were recorded during the Jan. 20 Mastering JMP live
The holidays are nearing, and you may have a person with a quantitative bent on your gift list. Perhaps that person is an analyst, engineer, scientist or statistician who works in an organization that is ramping up its analytic efforts. Well, here's help with your holiday shopping! It's a list
If you attended the JMP Discovery Summit 2011 in Denver, Colorado, back in September, you may have sat in on my presentation, Image Isn't Everything But It Sure Is Something in JMP 9. I talked about the image functionality that was added to JMP for version 9, and I demonstrated some