In my Solar Array Surprises post about the SAS solar farm, one of the surprises was a midday dip in the power output, for which commenters supplied several possible explanations. That data was from April, and we could only speculate what the summer data would look like. But now summer
This blog post was written by a blogger who is no longer at SAS I'm a rising senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. During this summer, I worked as a technical summer student at SAS. While JMP 8 doesn’t have image manipulation support, it does allow
While Lou Valente, Scott Wise and I were presenting the Lowering Costs Through Visual Analytics seminar at the SAS Austin campus recently, one of the attendees gave us a great hint. Fred Norton of Fred Norton LLC – a facility consulting firm – told us that there was an easy
In the past two years, close to 1000 professors and students have attended JMP workshops held by Melodie Rush on U.S. college campuses. As the 2009-2010 academic year approaches, Mia Stephens joins the workshop circuit. Mia, a new member of our JMP academic team, is an applied statistician who is
Vector plots show arrows on a two-dimensional plot and allow one to see four dimensions of data: x position, y position, arrow angle, and arrow length. Equivalently, the four dimensions can be x start position, y start position, x end position, and y end position. The latter form is most
“Now You See It” is data visualization expert Stephen Few’s new book, explaining how to use simple visual techniques for quantitative analysis. In this textbook-sized offering, Stephen explores one of the more overlooked aspects of analysis: the graphic representation of information. Stephen lays the foundation for good visual analysis in
In case you missed my Twitter update about it last week, a JMP tree map created by Daniel Arneman of UNC Energy Services was featured in a recent data visualization report by Intelligent Enterprise titled "Seeing Connections: Visualization Makes Sense of Data." The report, by Seth Grimes, is available as
Referring to JMP as "an old friend," statistician John Wass reviewed JMP 8 for Scientific Computing and calls it a "major upgrade." The review includes several visualizations and covers many of the major new features of JMP 8. Wass concludes: "This latest version is stunning in the quality of the
Thanks for the enlightening comments to my blog post "I Like 3-D Pie Charts" and for the new graphs. While the bar charts from Joe and John are very nice, I prefer vertical bars because of their connection with the gravity orientation of trees, mountains, buildings and of course cell-phone
NOTE: This entry comes to the JMP Blog from our colleague Jerome Bryssinck of SAS Belgium. Jerome had seen Jeff Perkinson's examples of basketball analytics using JMP and created his own example using football (or soccer) data. In response to comments from readers, Jerome updated his model on May 26,