Minne JMP User Group Meeting
1pm, April 14th
Location:
Good Samaritan Church
5730 Grove St
Edina, MN 55436
Cost:
Free
1:00 Introduction and Welcome
Minne JMP Board
1:30 JMP 8 - Graph builder
Drag and drop to construct graphs and explore data:
It’s OK if you don’t know what kind of graph your data needs or even what story it can tell. With JMP 8, you don’t need to know. The Graph Builder in JMP 8 lets you construct and modify graphs interactively, or make a new graph with just a couple of clicks and drags of your mouse. You get instantaneous feedback as you drag variables onto a graph. Compare visually across grouping levels – all in one plot composed of small multiples with elements such as scatterplots, bar charts and histograms. Forget about switching between windows to make comparisons and explore your data. Just drag and drop your way to understanding.
Sam Gardner, SAS/JMP
2:30 Break
Sponsored by JMP
JMP for Visual Analytics
2:45 Considerations for Using JMP in an Enterprise Business Intelligence Environment
Business Intelligence, or Analytics, is a term used to describe the ability of any business, e.g. financial, scientific, engineering, to make data-driven decisions. In engineering functions, this has been established through "Six Sigma" and "Design for Manufacturability" initiatives. Companies such as Google are recognized for their prowess in using Analytics to stay ahead of their competition. Database architecture is the foundation upon which a company will build it's Business Intelligence capabilities. Yet the fundamental need for a well designed database structure can be easily overlooked. Only once the database is in place and readily accessible to the analysts can the tools such as JMP be use effectively for visual discovery.
Roger Groening, Medtronic
3:20 Data Manipulation
So, you have data in multiple locations and would like to analyze it. This presentation will highlight how JMP reads data from several formats. Once the data are in simple tables, we'll manipulate them using the 'Tables' menu in JMP (we'll focus on Joins / Concats / Splits / Stacks). Finally, we demo a JMP script which reads data from e-mail and compiles the data.
Brian Stinger, Honeywell
3:55 JMP Analysis
A good analysis solution provides the ability to Explore ones data, Discover trends and patterns, and Communicate results and findings. Excel is the most widely used software package to accomplish these goals despite the fact that it has not kept pace with recent developments and emerging trends. This presentation will show how JMP can augment Excel analysis with visualization and analysis techniques that help users Explore, Discover and Communicate with ease.
Charles Pirrello, JMP
4:30 Closing Remarks
This is your user group. Give us your thoughts / suggestions for subsequent meetings by participating in our ‘voice of the customer’ survey. We will analyze the results using the JMP Choice Analysis tool (new in JMP 8) at our next meeting.
If you are interested in giving a presentation at a Minne JMP User Group meeting, please contact Mike Olson at olson [dot] mike [dot] p [at] gmail [dot] com, or another board member.
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Presenters' Biographies:
Sam Gardner is a Systems Engineer with JMP. Sam was a commissioned officer in the US Air Force, where he served as a Scientific Analyst, specializing in weapon systems simulation, flight test data analysis, and human factors research. During his service, he was also an Instructor of Statistics at the Air Force Institute of Technology. After leaving the military, Sam joined Eli Lilly and Company as an industrial statistician supporting manufacturing and manufacturing development, and he later worked as a process chemist in antibiotic purification.
Sam holds B.S. degrees in Mathematics and Chemistry from Purdue University, a M.S. in Mathematics from Creighton University, and a M.S. in Statistics from the University of Kentucky.
Roger Groening is the BI Project Manager at Metronic. He leads projects to design and implement data warehouse architectures and to implement real-time desktop visual analytic tools at all levels of the manufacturing organization. Prior to Medtronic, Roger was a Body Engineer at Ford Motor Company.
Roger holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech, and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Brian Stinger is an engineer with the Yield Enhancement Group at Honeywell. He has 20+ years experience with semiconductor process's and device physics.
He has been an avid user of JMP for 15 years and utilizes it for analyzing and modeling large complex data sets.
Brain holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the U. of Minn. And is a Six Sigma Black Belt.
Chuck Pirrello is a Product Manager at JMP, where he oversees the integration of JMP with SAS software and solutions. Specifically, he is responsible for driving the development and marketing of SAS Visual BI and SAS Visual Data Discovery, which both include JMP's capabilities for interactive data visualization and exploration.
Before joining the JMP division, Pirrello was responsible for marketing and selling business performance management applications for SAS. Prior to SAS, he worked for Hyperion and Comshare, vendors of financial and business intelligence software. He has more than 20 years of experience in finance, consulting and product marketing.
Pirrello has an MBA from Sacred Heart University and a bachelor's degree in accounting from Fairfield University.
