JMP Wish List

I would like to plot two overlayed graphs in the Graph Builder using individual, overlayed x-axes. This would be doable, if I could choose a secondary x-axis, just like I can choose a secondary y-axis. See How do I make a graph with secondary x-axis?    ... View more

It would be nice to have the ability to set the number of decimal places of columns in tables. This could be done by adding options to the summary tables of each platform in the preferences menus. The good starting point would be the distribution summary statistics, which can be expanded to other platforms as well. ... View more

The GraphBuilder can be used to visualize sensor data as Y's and a DateTime as X to make trends.   However, when Y's have different units or scales, the only way is to pre-standardize the columns and plot them all together.   An axis default option that allows this visualization without having to transform the columns will be very essential for new JMP users that are getting data from their manufacturing systems (e.g., Osisoft PI in JMP 17).   See how it is done in historians below (+video). To be clear, this is already standard in JMP, but only if you put variables in one axis: Again, the moment you add an X variable (DateTime), the plot squeezes variables using only one scale.           ... View more

Venn Diagrams are a great tool for comparing groups of data quickly, but currently are only available via Add-Ins and require special formatting of the data. Would be great to have it integrated into the graph builder GUI. The ability to display object names, not just object counts, would also be very helpful.  ... View more

When I am using the Fit Model platform with Standard Least Squares, I can effectively save the prediction formula and standard errors to a separate column. When I do this for multiple responses, I can effectively use the Graph -> Profiler menu to overlay those models. This is very helpful, as each response may have a different set of meaningful predictors in it. Here is a reference to such a thread on the topic:   https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Confidence-Interval-in-prediction-profiler/td-p/10817   However, if I have a generalized linear model (GLM) such as a logistic regression, I have no such luck. Within the single model for fitting the GLM Personality, the results in that platform have confidence intervals on them. However, I am only able to export the prediction formula. If my most 2 important responses contains one normal response with Standard Least Squares, and one binomial response with a GLM logistic regression model, I cannot create a joint Prediction Profiler with effective predictions and confidence intervals. I am optimistic this can be done because we already have evidence that the confidence intervals can be created for GLMs. You just have to work out what the StdErr Pred Formula column would look like.   I brought this up as a ticket with JMP as well. The following series of responses from JMP support certainly brought attention to the issue, but perhaps if others find value in this enhancement, then it is more likely to be completed.   "Unfortunately, at the moment, I do not see a way to get a confidence interval around the predicted probability for the binary response in the combined standalone profiler."   "I see what you mean about the inability to save Standard Error Formulas for GLM's or for Least Squares models containing nested terms. I am not aware of any particular reason why this is the case. I will pass these items on to JMP R&D for their consideration in a future version of JMP."   ... View more

Sometimes, long tails, distant modes or outliers that are part the initial data can be misleading in the profiler. As the profiler is not showing the data, there might be a lot of iteration plotting and visualizing those. With minor modifications in the profiler, one could visually detect all of these issues, see example below.   ... View more

The Profiler is a powerfull tool in JMP and widely used for the analysis and interpretation of Design of Experiment models. To make prediction about future runs, the uncertainity of a model has to be considered. However, JMP is currently limited to confidence intervals, which only allow to make predictions about the range where the true mean falls into. Prediction and tolerance intervals on the other side would extend this so single runs or even for a poportion of a population. Other software tools such as DesignExpert offer these options already for years and I guess many other JMP users would appreacitae such an option in one of the future JMP versions.     ... View more

Please implement native Polar plot platform. Also called Radar Plot, Star Plot etc. There are some work arounds that you can find, for instance a cylindrical 3D plots add-in from Mr. Brady Brady (@brady_brady), but a native platform with all the usual controls over lines, markers, colors, point selections etc. would be much better. Something like this: or this (this one is from Mr. Xam Gregg's blog post):   This is actually, an illustration how would reference range look on this kind of plot:   If something like that already exists, I apologize and please help me find it. ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help all Jmp users! ☑ removes something that feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   What inspired this wish list request?  In Jmp18, a warning message appears for EVERY user - EVERY day - EVERY time Jmp is started  ... unfortunately: already months before Jmp expires. Unlike a splash window, the pop-up window remains in place until the user closes it manually.   This is how it looks like:   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please - remove the warning message [either: completely, or: after 3 seconds] - just show the warning message 1 - 2 x before it gets disabled [automatically] or: - add an option to disable the warning message (like for the startup splash window).   Why is this idea important?  less confusion for JMP users no annoyed license site managers   other wishes from    TS-00143027   ... View more

In manufacturing is very common to handle datasets with more than a hundred columns, each corresponding to a sensor. Manufacturing systems have a tree hierarchy that is defined in PI AF (also used in JMP 17 and PI to find the sensor names).   This information is lost when moved to a JMP table.  We open-sourced an add-in to reorganize columns (see image and code here)   However, JMP only allows two levels (parent group and child), which is very limiting in terms of organization and analysis. For manufacturing data, multiple grouping levels are a must-have or users won't be able to use JMP for their daily tasks in manufacturing (too much information to handle).   Please have a look at PI AF to understand how engineers are used to finding data. This information can be coded into a column property. This metadata can eventually allow users to swap analysis between assets. ... View more

We use map shapes and background maps with wafer maps of manufacturing data.  They are really valuable outside the geographic context.  JMP assumes if you added a background map your data wants to be geodesic coordinates, typically resetting the axes so the data disappears entirely.  This happens in X-Y but it's worse in graph builder because after you've reset it to linear it will keep going back to geodesic when you make unrelated changes to the plot - for example dragging a column over to color the data.   If the assumption is valuable maybe it could pop up once and say "hey, is "X" geodesic?  I can set the axis column property to that for you!".  Seems like column property is a good way to do it. But I find that even if set that property to Linear it will switch to Geodesic when I add a background map, it doesn't seem to honor the column property on this...   ... View more

How is it possible to change the Font setting of Y Group in graph builder?   I'm using JMP Pro 14.1   It is not possible to right-click to change those as with e.g the x-axis.   The Group font and font size are controlled by the "Text" size as specified in the Preferences for JMP.  They are not controlled as an individual graph by graph setting.      File --  Preferences -- Fonts    It would be nice to be able to control the fonts by right-clicking   ... View more

Previously I asked a multiple Y-axis overlay chart in the user community (Multiple Y axis in a chart. (Multiple Y axis scales)) and Byron made a scirpt for it (Multiple Y-Axis Graphs).   I hope I can get this feature from the 'Graph Builder' in next JMP version with interactive Y-axis setting. Currently the multiple Y-axis graph (from the script) dosen't link with the data in the graph. If the data is linked with multiple Y-axis interactively, it will be better than other supporting programs. Thank you. : ) ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes something which feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it     What inspired this wish list request?    To generate presentations with consistent design and smooth transitions, users might want to generate Plots with consistent size and design. In Jmp it is very difficult generate plots with consistent plot region and label sizes: Graph builder Frame size JSL  In Jmp 18, a new feature was added to store plot settings and to apply the settings to other plots. But this does not include a fixed plot region.   Jmp support thinks that it might be possible to gernate plots with consistent plot region size - but cannot provide a recipe nor code to accomplish the task: TS-00076249   The background: In general, every Graph that is exported from Jmp (via Save or copy to clipboard) has a different size of the plot region, even if the Size() setting is the same. Factors which influence the size of the plot region - even for identical Frame sizes: - screen resolution - font sizes - axis orientation - axis label settings - ...?   What is the improvement you would like to see?  Please proved a method to generate plots with consistent size of the plot region and axis size settings.   Why is this idea important?  Graphs which are exported from Jmp look nice. But if every graph has slightly different size and label size, this looks chaotic when switching from one slide of a presentation to another. With the new option, this issue can be solved.       more wishes submitted by       ... View more

☑ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ removes a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   @myTop10_2024 What inspired this wish list request?  For Line Graphs in Graph Builder, there is a cool feature row order. If it's selected, the line doesn't connect data points from left to right in the graph - but along the order in which they appear in the data table.   Instead of this graph: the user gets this graph: Much better ...   But unfortunately, there are those nasty jumps "back" to the next curve. Of course, for simple graphs, you can use a column (here "Station") as an overlay to produce 3 separate curves, without the zigzag. But already with slightly more complicated graphs like this one here: Graph Builder. Combine Smoother and Line - how? the user reaches the limits of current Graph Builder (v17, v18).       What is the improvement you would like to see?     With sorted data in the data table, a step from right to left indicates a new curve. So, with row order enabled, there could be an additional option to draw lines  "only left -> right". If this option is enabled, line for steps from higher to lower values will disappear -> the jump back-lines are gone : ) Fallback:  Rows with missing y value could be used to add a break in line graphs (even somewhere in the center of the graph - cool, right?) ... if there was an option: *)   Why is this idea important?  a tiny change of the program - a  tremendous improvement for the users: dt =Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Functional Data/Weekly Weather Data.jmp" ); dt << New Column( "group",Character,"Nominal",Formula( Substr( :STATION, 8, 1 ) )); Graph Builder( Size( 523, 407 ), Summary Statistic( "Median" ), Graph Spacing( 4 ), Variables( X( :DATE ), Y( :TAVG ), Overlay( :group ), Color( :group ) ), Elements( Line( X, Y, Legend( 31 ), Row order( 1 ) ) ), Local Data Filter( Add Filter( columns( :STATION ), Where( :STATION == {"USW00003195", "USW00003868", "USW00003949"} ), Display( :STATION, N Items( 15 ) ) ) ) )   more wishes by   ... View more

What inspired this wish list request?  I have come across few types of issues with data filters when working with large datasets which make filtering data very slow and unresponsive (conditional data filters getting unfiltered and using Find). Issues with Find can be related to few (bugs? or features) how Find works with local data filters, but Run would still be nice option to have.   What is the improvement you would like to see?  I would like to see an option in Filter red triangle menu to create Run button for a filter. This would allow me to filter the data to the level I want to before filtering it all.   Why is this idea important?  Using filters with data having a lot of data can get quite unresponsive from time to time, especially if there is any calculations involved. ... View more

☐ cool new feature ☑ could help many users! ☑ feels like a „bug“ ☐ nice to have ☐ nobody needs it   #myTop10_2022 #myTop10_2023 #myTop10_2024   short: against issue like this one:   long: What inspired this wish list request?  Heatmaps are great to display variations of a value depending on 2 input variables. prominent use case: measured values vs. x/y position (e.g. chips on a wafer)   Unfortunately, Heatmaps use the minor Tick spacing to determine the size of the individual "tiles". This leads to a which actually feels like a bug for many Jmp users - the issue: The tick settings (and with them: the Heatmap tile size!) are automatically adjusted whenever the user changes the axis range by dragging the axis or by zooming with the magnifier tool: Some problem using Heatmap    Concerning axis adjustments by dragging, @julian 's suggestion helps: hold down SHift while changing the axis scaling. But it just helps when you drag one end of the axis - if you want to zoom out by grabbing the axis and moving it away from the plot, you will ruin you plot - with and without pressing Shift. Same issue with the magnifier tool: https://community.jmp.com/t5/Discussions/Some-problem-using-Heatmap/m-p/571751/highlight/true#M78136     What is the improvement you would like to see?  An option for GraphBuilder/Heatmap to forces JMP to set the tick spacing fixed. This will allow users to keep the tick spacing exactly as it was defined by the user. Why is this idea important?  Under the line: tiny change of the program - tremendous improvement for the users. maybe there are some users who don't need it - or: some users who don't know yet that they need it :) No longer destroyed plots after adjusting the axis range/zoom :)   most important use case: "1x1" (for chip wafer maps in Semiconductor Industry) error 1) Jmp clusters multiple chips into one cell by increasing minot tick step size to > 0 -> individual outliers get averaged out! error 2) Jmp invents empty "sub-Chips" by automatically changing minor tick step size to < 1:   To be on the safe side, cautious users abandon the Heatmap style and plot wafermaps as Points: either with mainly white area around the "points" - which makes it hard to get the actual info: or with overlapping points -> dangerous, almost as bad as the clustering issue (#1) (!)   more wishes submitted by   ... View more

I would like to have Graph Builder be able to Overlay by several variables in the same way that x, y or color drop-zones can take several variables. This would allow overlay to be selected/deselected from the "Variables" group under each graph type and create much more complex and rich visualizations. ... View more