JMP Blog

Billy Beane on the business of baseball

Arati Korwar — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:53:33 +0000

He's "an athlete who wants to be an academic." He's "the dumbest guy in the office." And his own professional baseball career was characterized by "bad numbers," making him the "classic case of an overvalued asset." That's Billy Beane in his own words. Beane is general manager (and minority owner) [...]

Creating micromaps in JMP

Jennifer Baulier — Wed, 23 May 2012 14:30:01 +0000

Editor's Note: This blog post first appeared in August 2011, at the end of blogger Jennifer Baulier's summer internship. We are republishing her blog post now that JMP 10 has been released and the Micromaps add-in discussed in the post is now available in the JMP File Exchange. JMP 10 [...]

10 tips for making analytics converts out of your colleagues

Arati Korwar — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:57:57 +0000

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 [...]

Making better predictive models quickly with JMP

Aashish Majethia — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:56:08 +0000

There are many ways of generating a model such as basic linear regression, decision trees, neural nets, and generalized linear models. JMP Pro can be a great tool for data miners, those who want to get more information out of their data and build more accurate predictive models. It incorporates [...]

The beauty of diversity in analytics

Anne Milley — Tue, 15 May 2012 14:18:58 +0000

I recently gave a short talk at Predictive Analytics World in DC called “Analytics: The Beauty of Diversity.” Having just met with a wonderful group of customers a few weeks ago on the JMP Customer Advisory Board, I noticed that some of the same themes appeared: diversity of perspectives and [...]

Google Docs and the JMP Graph Builder for iPad

Daniel Valente — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:32:21 +0000

Have you had a chance to download the JMP Graph Builder for iPad? If you haven't, go to the AppStore and download it. It's free and a great tool for data visualization and exploration, and it's the best way to view and explore JMP 10 data tables right on your [...]

Visualization of Google Code Jam participation

Xan Gregg — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:02:46 +0000

I've always enjoyed programming contests. I was a regular contestant and sometimes winner in MacTech magazine's Programmer's Challenge in the '90s where the fastest code wins, and I've been a longtime participant and now part-time administrator at Project Euler, where only correctness matters. For the past couple years, I've been [...]

Supervised binning add-in for predictive modeling

Clay Barker — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:15:39 +0000

When building a prediction model, there are a variety of ways that we can model the response as a function of our predictors. The Fit Model platform in JMP allows us to model the response as a linear function of our predictors. The Nonlinear platform allows us to model the [...]

JMP Discovery Summit registration open

Jessica Marquardt — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:21:39 +0000

Reserve your place at Discovery Summit 2012, hosted by JMP. It’s the analytics event of the year, an interactive forum where theories will be challenged, best practices benchmarked and innovative concepts born. This year it’s taking place in the brand new Executive Briefing Center at SAS world headquarters in Cary, [...]

Business case studies that teach statistics

Gail Massari — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:45:07 +0000

JMP users may remember UC Denver Professor Marlene Smith for the lively discussion around the poster she presented at JMP Discovery Summit last year: Using JMP to Teach Business Statistics: Cases and Applications. Now you can access 12 of her business case studies. Professor Smith includes a description of each [...]