JMP Wish List

Idea: Add a comment/label to a constraint to describe it's function   Problem: It's common to share DOE's with colleagues, when they look at how the DOE was designed it's often very difficult to know what each constraint is trying to achieve   How solution works: Labelling each constraint will indicate the intention of each constraint ... View more

JMP may very well be my favorite program. 99% of things I absolutely love about it. One thing that constantly messes me up though is that I rarely use it to present if I can relatively easily use excel to do a similar graph. The reason is that it takes so long to get all of the fonts and formatting right. It's also not often clear which font refers to the word on a graph I'm trying to fix. I've often thought I wished something like the following features were available. 1) If I click on a word/number/symbol/etc, everyone would have a drop-down menu to change the font and associated attributes. To be sure, some categories do have this. But on graph builder I multiple times run into a few that I can't change. For example. In graph builder, the y and x categories can't be changed with a drop-down menu. Another example is a contour plot I'm currently making. I cannot do anything about the data labels for each contour line. They are both too small and overlap with the dots on the contour line so one can't see them. I can't find a solution to move them, and to change the font size I would have to go into preferences and generally change all uses of a specific font (ie. Text, Heading, etc). This brings me to my second thought. 2) Having multiple sets of preferences for different types of presentations would be useful. Sometimes I'm showing something on a computer, and every word needs to be massive for my aging boss who needs to squint to see small fonts. Other times however I'm presenting in a conference hall and have a 30-foot screen, and the font size to graph size ratio can be much lower. Having a set of presets that you can quickly choose without changing every setting globally would be really nice.   I'm not a developer so I really have zero ideas how hard this would be to implement. It seems that part of this would involve having text be able to be dynamically moved in and out of categories of fonts so one could uniquely change individual pieces of text or change all similar types of text inside a single plot (ie. all data labels for a single plot) or having a set of font presets for specific types of plots. It sounds like a complicated hierarchy of font presets that are also dynamical and maybe this is too difficult, in which case I completely understand.   Either way, JMP is my favorite program and this is more of a suggestion so that I can present it as well rather than a full-bodied criticism. Regardless of if this gets taken up or not, thanks for all the work y'all do on this program! ... View more

It would be great if we could display the legend associated to the option "More Columns for Color Map" on the Hierarchical Clustering report. Thanks in advance for considering this suggestion :) ... View more

I'd like to see two changes if possible: On the local data filter add in a button next to the red arrow that would clear the filtered item.  This is a frequently used option so not having to go into the red arrow for it would speed up user interactions. On graph builder, currently if you have a smoother or line element along with markers and the markers are not showing in the legend, when you try and change the smoother/line color it will change the marker color as well.  To get around this you must have the markers showing in the legend when you try and change the smoother/line color.  I'd like the functionality to be that if you right click a smoother/line element and change the color only the line would change.  However, if you select the element (and thus all the markers get selected as well) then when you right click to change the smoother/line color then the markers would change color as well. Thanks for considering these requests. Steve ... View more

Permits quick switching between data tables and associated plots without having to hop to the JMP Home window.  This feature is available on the PC version as shown in the thread below.  Thanks!   Discussion on Thumbnail Panel for Mac    JMP 16.2 for Mac ... View more

Hello JMP team, I'd like to suggest that when a prediction formula is saved, the name of the column includes the model type it came from.  For example, from a neural net instead of "Predicted Y" you would get "NN Predicted Y" and GenReg would be "GR Y Prediction Formula" vs "Y Prediction Formula".   This would help with keeping the columns straight when you are saving multiple models.   Thanks for considering this suggestion.   Steve ... View more

The idea is to have an option in the 'new formula column' (right click on column) that inverse a formula function.    For exemple, the formula of a column :z is: :x / (1 + :y) Then I select click on 'New formula column/inverse function'. Then a popup menu or an additional menu propose to select the independant variable. Let say I click on :y. Then a new column called Inverse[z][y] is created with the following formula: :x/:z - 1 This features would be extremly appreciated for inversing transformation.          ... View more

The laser pointer in JMP is a great tool for highlighting things as one teaches using JMP.  It would be a lot more handy if, in addition to freehand drawing, one could create arrows and rectangles to highlight items in the output.  My freehand drawing sometimes actually obscures what I'm trying to highlight thanks to the uncertainties of mouse movements under control of just my hand.  (Hopefully that's clear?)  Thank you. ... View more

At the moment you can do that manually via: Select in one Column / Rows / Row Selection / Select Where (Ctrl Shift W) / Set Current Selection to Restrict ... View more

Step 3 in the license renewal process no longer matches what happens in the software.  The Expired software popup no longer comes up as described in the email.  Instead, once you start up JMP, if you select Help, then the option renew Licenses is now active and clicking it brings up the aforementioned popup.  from there you can select open License as explained in the rest of the email.   My version of JMP is v16.1.   thanks! ... View more

Hello JMP team, I'd like to suggest the following changes to the preferences offered: In styles, have the Major/Minor grid lines be broken out for the Y axis and X axis, so they can be set separately. For graph builder be able to set the # of X grouping bins (default is 5 currently) For neural net be able to set the default nodes (current is 3 TanH one level) For bootstrap and boosted forest have all the tree parameters in the preferences   Thanks for considering these   Steve ... View more

For very large data sets, Fit Model with many 'By' variables has limited performance.  Assuming the model execution doesn't run out of memory, the processing time is quite slow.  For example: A 50 million row data file with X and Y coordinates as the model effects, and Z coordinate as the Y variable to fit with 1000 distinct 'By' variables will fail on a system with 256GB of RAM and multiple processors. (The memory is what kills it here but assuming we had infinite RAM, the compute time is still very slow since it is single threaded)   The wish is for the Fit Model Platform to bundle the model calculations into smaller, more manageable, batches of 'By' variables and utilize multithreading to process through the work load until all 'By' variables have a response generated. In the particular case I am working with, the Personality is 'Standard Least Squares' and the Emphasis is 'Minimal Report'. Once the response is generated, I am capturing the residual values and predicted values which also takes time to update to the data table.     Is there opportunity to manage Fit Model work loads more efficiently for large data sets?    Thank you,   Ryan ... View more

Hello JMP team, I'd like to suggest the following changes with control chart builder: When using phases Adds in an alarm report by phase as well as the overall alarm rate Keeps the capability analysis if applicable and if possible, shows the capability analysis by the phases Add in the ability to minimize each Y or have the control panel scroll down and stay "in screen" If you want to show Ind points when subgrouping, have the mean points stand out vs the Ind points (different marker size, shape, and or color) ... View more

I love having the column histograms show up on the data table. This is an awesome feature and I'm glad that JMP has this functionality. I think it would be even more awesome if JMP allows for user preference on whether to show the missing value bins by default or not. Currently (I'm on JMP 15.2), the default is that the missing values do not show up on the histogram. The user has to right click (on the column histogram) to turn on the option to include missing values. For users like me who will always want to see whether there are (and how many) missing values or not, it would save me an extra step if this can be set up under 'Preferences'.   Thanks! ... View more

In Latent Class Analysis, it is typical to run the model several times using different seeds to make sure that the optimization is not stuck on a local minima. It would be great if JMP adds this functionality (have an input box to say how many starts the user wants), and report on performance on the different seeds (log likelihood/BIC/AIC) to have an idea on whether the LCA solution is well-defined or not.   ... View more

By default, filters are set to contains terms, which does not allow for boolean operations. Requesting default filter type to be regEx or if possible, all filter types to allow regEx by default (without explicit setting).    Maybe this exists, but I haven't been able to find it.    JMP Version 16.x. ... View more

Add Data Type icon, similarly as Modeling Type already is, to column listings. Most likely best to add as new preference option in Tables menu if some people want to keep old behaviour (but enable by default as it would already help solving issues in Community :)). This should be extended to all column listings which already have Modeling Type visible.   Example with Character and Numeric columns (of course JMP has few more)   Also quick option to change datatype could be nice, but I guess this could cause issues. ... View more

Hello JMP team, I'd like to suggest the following options for the partition platform: A start over button so that you don't have to press the Prune button a bunch of times to restart a tree An ability to set the minimum split size to a % of the training N qty vs the current option of just a static number The ability to stop splitting on a logworth value (for example, don't split if the splits logworth is below 2) The ability to highlight the rows in the datatable by clicking on the row of the leaf report   Thanks for considering these requests!   Steve ... View more

Hello, Can the Group By option in the Oneway Bivariate Fit platform be enhanced to support grouping by multiple columns? Currently, it only supports one column, which can be limiting. Thank you. ... View more