Are you a Facebook Platform developer or Page owner? Have you explored how much traffic flows through your page, how many people share your posts, or what posts receive the most attention? As you probably know, Facebook has developed an excellent feature for compiling traffic data. Facebook Insights provides platform
People are living longer -- but why is this, and how can we remain healthy late in life? That was the focus of a recent CBS Sunday Morning story, which also showed JMP software in action in a research lab. Researchers have been studying some centenarians to figure out their
What a great headline: “Date Night at the Zoo, if Rare Species Play Along.” This New York Times story got my attention because I love date night. I also love many different species of animals – many of which are, sadly, threatened or endangered. This article is a great reminder
Koren Ichihara is a psychologist, not a statistician. But she took the stage Monday at Predictive Analytics World in Chicago to talk about the value of analytics in her job as Senior Analyst for HR Analytics at Sears Holdings Corp. With 4,000 stores, 250,000 employees and a corporate family that
Does your company have an effective Quality by Design (QbD) program? Have you shown that you can efficiently determine critical process parameters and justify a control strategy using a thorough understanding of both the product and process? These are the requirements of QbD. Although initiated in pharmaceutics in Q8 Pharmaceutical
I was recently at ALT 2012, a conference on reliability, hosted by INSA Rennes in France where I studied physics. I greeted the conference organizer, who took a look at me and seemed puzzled. He had taught me a while back and remembered me only as a student. He struggled
In addition to the Tip of the Day within JMP software, we are collecting and sharing quick ways to make your JMP use more efficient and fun for a series of tips called "Have you tried..." Here's our latest tip, below. It's about a row state column: A row state
“Some of the best data miners have a Freakonomics mindset,” says Dean Abbott, President of Abbott Analytics and thought leader in the areas of modeling, data mining and data visualization. These people are curious data sleuths who ask the interesting questions. Abbott discussed this and much more with Anne Milley,
What’s the most time-consuming part of any analytics process? Frequently, it’s collecting the data from an array of sources before analysis can begin. In today’s multiparadigm world, that can mean using many programs such as SAS, Excel and R. JMP can help. It “plays well with others,” so you can
From the Analytically Speaking panel discussion this morning -- a live webcast I watched with hundreds of other people -- I picked up a multitude of strategies for helping co-workers, managers and executives become comfortable with using analytics to inform decision-making. Here are 10 of my favorite tips from that discussion: Start