The front page of the Wall Street Journal on March 13 highlighted an "$11 Trillion Hole" and said "Americans See 18% of Wealth Vanish." I looked at the chart, and the 2008 number indeed looked as if it had fallen off a cliff. But then I looked at the rest
It may be April 1, but this is no joke. Nicholas Lifke, who has been using JMP since Kindergarten, put our statistics software to use to determine the best weight location for his Pinewood Derby car. The 7-year-old Cub Scout needed to know if weighting the front of the car
I’m sure most of you reading this have encountered the birthday probability problem: Given a group of n people, what is the probability that at least two people have the same birthday? The answer is given by the formula This formula is simplistic because it assumes birthdays are equally spread
A while back, I was surprised to receive a huge cell phone bill. My family had greatly exceeded our monthly allotment of minutes. In response to that episode I became extremely conservative with my cell-phone minutes allotment that I purchased. Then as time passed I decided it was time to
The brand-new JMP track at SAS Global Forum -- a full day of user presentations -- was the subject of a previous post. But the JMP track is just one way to learn about JMP at the annual SAS users conference, to be held March 22-25 this year in D.C.
The first-ever JMP track will be offered next month in Washington, D.C., at SAS Global Forum, the annual event organized by the SAS Global Users Group, which is open to SAS software users worldwide. The track is called “SAS Presents…JMP” and is scheduled for Monday, March 23, from 10:30 a.m.
You can now follow JMP on Twitter. Find us at JMP_software and receive updates by joining Twitter, a free "microblogging" service. JMP users and others who value data exploration, analytics and data visualization are using Twitter to talk about those topics. We wanted to take part in the discussion, too.
Here's a fun comic from xkcd ("a Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math, and Language") for Valentine's Day:
A full house gathered to hear Sam Savage’s latest seminar Risk Visualization: Shining a Light on Uncertainty at the Sheraton New York last Thursday. This diverse audience represented a large cross-section of area leaders and practitioners in the financial, insurance, public, healthcare and academic fields, to name a few. Everyone
SAS just reported record revenues of US$2.26 billion in 2008. This is a 5.1 percent increase in revenues over 2007. This is happy news at JMP, which is a business unit of SAS. Here's what CEO Jim Goodnight had to say about these financial results: “We achieved our 33rd year