JMPer Cable Current Issue (Winter 2009)
Cover Story: Introducing JMP Version 8
By John Sall, SAS Institute, Inc.
JMP 8 is out the door. JMP 8.0.1 will be coming in a few months. You may have already seen our new web site, including the “Mars-character” videos and some video demos I did that are currently available on our web site. You may have seen our “JMP Foreword” magazine filled with user stories and essays along with new-feature profiles. We devote this entire issue of JMPer Cable to covering the new features from a few new angles.
The Graph Builder Platform: A Leap forward in Interactive Data Visualization (Pg. 2)
The Tabulate platform pioneered the idea of using drag-and-drop to build custom reports. Now, the new Graph Builder command in the Graph menu lets you do the same to construct graphs. Like Tabulate, the best way to learn about Graph Builder is with hands-on experimentation.
Download the data set referenced in the article.
Reliability: Investigating Product Life (Pg. 4)
In product reliability the goal is to find out how likely a failure is as a function of time by fitting a life distribution. Once you have a fit, you can estimate quantiles. For example, you could estimate how many hours of service before 10 percent of units fail. JMP offers two new platforms that are richer, more graphical, and more interactive than previous platforms.
Choice Experiments: Design and Analysis (Pg. 7)
Early versions of JMP addressed improving product quality using techniques such as those introduced by Six Sigma. Companies learned to make products better and make better products – but quality products don’t make a success story unless the buying public wants them. One way to find out what the customer wants is with a Choice experiment. A choice experiment is a survey that presents the potential buyer with a choice among several prospective product offerings. Choice modeling can be added to Six Sigma programs to improve product marketability.
Download the data set referenced in the article.
Save JMP Results as Flash Animations (Pg. 9)
It’s difficult and frustrating to create lively bubble plots and interactive profilers in JMP and then try to present them in a static fixed media such as PowerPoint slides (or this newsletter). JMP version 8 has taken the first steps to overcome this limitation.
Download the data set referenced in the article.
Other Features and Enhancements (Pg. 10)
We always strive to improve all aspects of JMP, introducing improvements asked for by users, and incorporating new features made possible by hardware and software advances. You will need to browse the JMP New Features document to see the scope of improvements in JMP 8.
Download the data set referenced in the article.
A Word about Documentation (Pg. 12)
As the software grows, so grows the documentation. With this release of JMP, documentation as printed books is now offered through a print-on-demand basis.
