The editor of the KD Nuggets newsletter, Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro, Ph.D., has attracted quite a number of subscribers over the years with a variety of interesting news items, polls and topics. It's hard to believe he is now posting the 12th annual poll on Data Mining / Analytic Tools Used. Despite
On April 28, Jami Hampton presented a case study using historical data to help determine the cost and cause of a company's late shipments. The company's goal? To improve its processes to ship on time and and increase profitability. Some of the customers charged the company when they received their
Take a few minutes to download the latest JMP maintenance update: JMP 9.0.2. It's available from the Software Updates section of the JMP website. Applying this maintenance release is recommended for everyone. JMP 9.0.2 is a general maintenance release that contains both enhancements and bug fixes. Read the release notes,
Basic statistics webcasts always draw a large crowd, new questions and interesting tips. Sam Gardner’s April 7 webcast was no exception. Sam started with distributions. He mentioned the CTRL broadcast command, where for certain reports, holding the CTRL key, clicking the red triangle and then selecting the command applies the
I have always been interested in studies that rank US cities according to a variety of attributes. It’s one reason I was drawn to the Raleigh, North Carolina, area more than a decade ago. These studies typically rate cities based on income, job growth, taxes, crime, etc. Kiplinger, a Washington,
If you’ve been to the Discovery Summit before, you know it’s not one to miss. Registration is now open for the analytics event of the year, Sept. 13-16 in Denver. If you haven’t attended, consider what you’ll get out of the experience. 10 event takeaways • Breakout presentations from some
Along with several other members of the JMP group, I'll be at SAS Global Forum in Las Vegas next week. There's a lot of good information of JMP at this annual gathering of SAS users. So stop by the JMP booth and look out for the many Super Demos and
I walked it into the British Museum one morning last week, eager to begin this special day for JMP. An Explorers seminar would take place here soon, and we would show delegates from a range of industries the latest incarnation of JMP: JMP Pro. And this, with the blessing of
Sarah Flexman is an 11-year-old middle-school student who uses JMP … for design of experiments … with proven success. A student at East Garner Magnet Middle School in North Carolina, she is an accomplished singer, flute player and athlete. Her father, Greg Flexman, uses JMP in his work leading the
In 1962, a psychological experiment was performed on 30 students. Thankfully, no one was delivering or receiving electric shocks (as in the famous Milgram experiment that was carried out in 1961). Instead, each student was asked to look at pictures of a woman making faces and rate the facial expression