Gordon Linoff has been a self-starter in many ways. To name a few, he, along with Michael Berry, founded Data Miners Inc. in 1998. Gordon was also one of the first experts who SAS looked to in the 1990s to start the ever-popular SAS Business Knowledge Series. He has consulted for a wide
JMP wasn’t around when Anne Milley was taking quantitative analytics courses in college. “Back then, it was all programming,” explained Milley, an economics major. “The visuals were just hideous.” Today, as senior director of analytic strategy in JMP Product Marketing at SAS, Milley appreciates the value that robust and interactive
Last week, SAS and JMP hosted Interface 2011: Statistical, Machine Learning, and Visualization Algorithms, 42nd Symposium on the Interface. The deep statistical issues were mostly over my head, but I found enough discussion of visualizations to keep me interested. Leland Wilkinson shared his recent research on Venn diagrams, which may
Christopher Gotwalt, the developer behind many innovative JMP software tools for data visualization and analysis, is featured in the Jan. 1 Member Spotlight column of Amstat News, the magazine of the American Statistical Association. Chris, the Statistical Applications Manager at JMP, contends that there’s no such thing as a pure
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
Statisticians like to talk about flipping coins, especially fair coins, which have an equal chance of being heads or tails. But what about flipping other things? In particular, as an Ultimate Frisbee player, I want to know what the odds are for a flying disc. Maybe knowing the odds will