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The well-appointed analytic workbench

Anne Milley — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:59:40 +0000

What do I mean by “analytic workbench?” Basically, the compute-resource environment with which data analysis takes place. How would you describe some of the analytic workbenches in your organization? Not everyone is a power analyst, so not everyone requires power tools. But all of us deal with data at some [...]

The future of medicine

Geoffrey Mann — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:17:11 +0000

Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to Peter Diamandis speak at the 10th Annual SAS Health Care & Life Sciences Executive Conference. He is the founder of the XPRIZE, a founding member of Singularity University as well as a medical doctor, author and father. His talk was an [...]

Time to move from SPSS to JMP

Walter Teague — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:28:14 +0000

Jason Brinkley, an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at East Carolina University, recently recorded a set of videos for JMP titled "Moving from SPSS to JMP," which address the differences between the two software packages. After taping, Jason answered some questions that dig a little deeper into these differences. What differences [...]

Box & Lucas: Designed experiments for nonlinear models

Bradley Jones — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:42:43 +0000

All this month, I'm writing about George E.P. Box, as part of the celebration of the International Year of Statistics. Last week, I wrote about Box-Behnken designs for fitting response surface models. In this post, I want to tell you about the paper Box wrote in 1959 with H. L. [...]

JMP data modeling challenge launched by ENBIS

Volker Kraft — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:11:50 +0000

ENBIS, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, has launched the next JMP Challenge sponsored by JMP. You have until June 15 to submit your solution showing how to turn data into practical value. The ENBIS Challenge by JMP is a yearly activity aimed at promoting sound practices of [...]

Making change happen in teaching statistics

Walter Teague — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:51:02 +0000

Educators from around the world will gather this week at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Research Triangle, NC, to attend this year’s US Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS), May 16-18. They will hear from thought leaders and practitioners such as Xiao-Li Meng, Dean of Harvard University's Graduate [...]

Celebrating George Box and Box-Behnken designs

Bradley Jones — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:54:37 +0000

As part of the International Year of Statistics, the JMP Blog is honoring influential statisticians each month. Professor George E.P. Box is the honoree for May. Last week, I wrote about on the first of his two-part paper with J. Stuart Hunter on the family of regular two-level fractional factorial [...]

Using JMP to connect to database, insert records

Stan Koprowski — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:06:03 +0000

I've recently gotten a few questions from customers about how to perform database operations using JMP. One question is whether you can use JMP to connect to databases. With JMP, yes, you can connect to an ODBC-compliant database using JMP Scripting Language or the Open database dialog interface. If you [...]

Why attendees love Discovery Summit

David DeFranza — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:08:54 +0000

Some have called Discovery Summit “the best conference I’ve ever attended.” While that alone is an excellent recommendation, others have even more to say. A 2011 attendee said, “While listening to one speaker, I learned of a different methodology to analyze a particular messy study at work. That one moment of [...]

Young researchers set to take Phoenix by storm

Mia Stephens — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:14:21 +0000

From May 12-17, 2013, more than 1,500 high school students from over 70 countries will compete in the annual Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in Phoenix, Arizona. The world's largest pre-college science and engineering competition, the fair hosts the brightest and most talented young researchers in science, engineering [...]