In "How many words for red?" (and part 2), blogger Sean Roberts shows some interesting visuals of named colors. He's trying to correlate the number of names of a hue with the different perceptual space of each hue from a psychology angle. I'm always interested when the raw data for
In my previous JSL tip, we saw how it is faster to access matrix items than to list items. It's faster still if you don't have to access the items at all. That is, get JMP's internal code to do the looping and item access instead of doing it in
Please join The Dartmouth Institute Area SAS® User Group (formerly known as the New Hampshire Vermont SAS Users Group) at its October meeting, which will feature SAS Visual Data Discovery. Chuck Pirrello, JMP Product Manager, will demonstrate how SAS Visual Data Discovery provides point-and-click access to the most vital data
Last week I showed how to make tornado charts in JMP and asked for input on the utility of these types of visualization. Here are thumbnails of the two alternative views of US population by age and sex. One commenter pointed out that the back-to-back bars of the tornado style
I didn't get any guesses on the odds of flipping various items from my Flipping Odds post. Instead, the commenters went directly to the question of interest, which is how does the chance for one flip affect the chance for two flips being the same? That turns out to be
The 2008 NC Science Blogging Conference was held last week at the Sigma Xi center in nearby Research Triangle Park. This was the second year of the conference, and JMP has been a sponsor both years. Besides bloggers, of course, the audience of 200 included scientists and teachers. This year