As part of the International Year of Statistics, this month we celebrate the American statistician, consultant, author and a founding father of quality management, Dr. W. Edwards Deming. If you’ve taken a course in quality management, continuous improvement or industrial statistics, you’ve no doubt been introduced to Deming and his
JMP 11 is a big step forward on many fronts, but especially for JMP Pro. From the time it was introduced in JMP 9, JMP Pro has been predominantly focused on predictive modeling, with more sophisticated procedures for fitting neural networks and boosting and bootstrapping regression tree models. JMP Pro
It’s almost time for JSM again, which is always one of my favorite times of year! The JMP team is having another big year at JSM with 10 presentations, panel discussions and poster sessions, not to mention the second annual JSM JMP Mixer. Last year’s JMP Mixer in San Diego
Having completed co-chairing a successful Analytics 2013 conference in London last month, Bart Baesens, professor and author, offers his insights to give JMP Blog readers a sample of some of the topics he will address in this month’s installment of Analytically Speaking: Conversations with Thought Leaders webcasts. Question: You teach both university students
Ladies and gentlemen, it’s official. We’ve reached the midpoint of the International Year of Statistics. Or as Bon Jovi would put it: “Whoa… we’re halfway there… whoa--OH! livin’ on a prayer.” (Seriously, it’s hard not to sing this song when you reach the halfway point of anything.) If you somehow
The statistician we are celebrating for the month of July in this International Year of Statistics is known as the “father of statistical quality control”: Walter A. Shewhart. Birth/Death: Shewhart was born in New Canton, Illinois, on March 18, 1891. He died on March 11, 1967, in Troy Hills, New Jersey.
Chris Olsen, AP Statistics pioneer and author, will lead a workshop at the SAS office in Boston on July 15 and 16. The workshop focuses on developing computing skills that will enable the use of statistical software in the AP Statistics course. To give educators a sense of what they
In celebration of the International Year of Statistics, we reached out to a few British statisticians to ask them to share a few thoughts on statistics as a discipline, statisticians and applied statistics. The United Kingdom has a rich statistical history, and we are pleased to share some of these
The 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), which was held in Phoenix, Arizona, concluded May 17. This year, approximately 1,600 high school students from more than 70 countries and territories competed for more than $4 million in prizes. The winners were recently announced. Congratulations to the winners of
A recent KD Nuggets poll caught my attention. It asked respondents to complete a sentence as follows: “With the trend towards Big Data and Data-driven Machine Learning methods Statistics will become less important Statistics importance will not change Statistics will become more important, as the foundation of Data Science Not