Kaiser Fung is a statistician with more than a decade of experience in applying statistical methods to unlocking the relationship between marketing and customer behaviors. He leads a team of statisticians at Sirius XM Radio responsible for gaining insight into customers and operational best practices. You may know him from
May 12 is becoming the annual event for data visualisation, with world-renowned visualisation guru Stephen Few presenting in London on that day for the second year running. It was perfect timing for him to visit the UK, the home of David McCandless, following Stephen's recent blog post that has rocked
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
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
Wow! Attendance is up to more than 500 at Predictive Analytics World (PAW) — and Predictive Analytics Summit, a new predictive analytics conference, was just held in San Diego a few weeks ago. Such growing interest in predictive analytics (a topic that is really all about value creation) is great
In regression problems, we are often faced with choosing a set of predictor variables from what may be a very large set of candidate predictors. When building our model, we want to find a meaningful set of predictors that yields accurate predictions. Classical methods like forward selection and all-subsets regression
Interested in JMP Pro predictive analytics software? Here are links to items that Solution Manager Ian Cox covered in his Feb. 17 live predictive modeling webcast. To access some of the items, you will need to complete a registration form or use your SAS profile to log into the site.
Did you miss Sam Gardner’s Feb. 10 live webcast on predictive modeling using neural nets? No problem. It’s available now as four short videos. Part 1: Sam describes neural networks and characteristics of the JMP Neural platform. Part 2: Sam demonstrates how to use single-layer neural nets to model
I promised the 400 people who attended Chuck Pirrello's Feb. 3 live webcast on using the JMP Add-In for Microsoft Excel a link to a JMP and Excel demo he recorded for you. Did you miss the live event? No problem. You can catch the 10-minute demo at your leisure.
In an earlier post, I mentioned a new JMP add-in that can be used to split data prior to predictive modeling. This post deals with how this works and so necessarily touches on the topic of JMP Scripting Language, or JSL for short. This is a big topic, so here