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nao · ‎07-27-2020

JMP has two separate platforms for drawing box-and-whisker plots. One is Graph Builder, and the other is Distribution. On the Help Page on Distribution Platform, there is a description on length of whiskers, which is based on Tukey's method. https://www.jmp.com/support/help/en/15.1/index.shtml#page/jmp/outlier-box-plot.shtml (But the Help page for Graph Builder - Box Plot doesn't mention how the length of whiskers are calculated, as in the above request.)

nao · ‎07-01-2020

I want to have percentile-based whiskers in Graph Builder - box plot. This also applies to box plots on Distribution platform. JMP's box plot does not allow the user to specify the location (length) of whiskers and only offer "Tukey" method. (Oddly this is not described in JMP's help page on Graph Builder - Box Plot, but it is in JMP Clinical's page below.) https://www.jmp.com/support/downloads/JMPC71_documentation/Content/JMPCUserGuide/GR_C_0003.htm It doesn't serve my purpose because my data contains dirty outliers and Tukey whiskers, with or without dots for outliers, draw attention to these extreme values. Instead, I draw box plots with whiskers at 10 and 90 percentiles, 5 and 95, 2.5 and 97.5, 1 and 99, etc. For this purpose I use some other app, like Graphpad Prism. Below is a link to Graphpad Prism's help page on this. https://www.graphpad.com/guides/prism/8/user-guide/box-and-whiskers.htm I would like JMP to have such capability. I believe we need to update the way we use box plots as it doesn't seem to go extinct in near future even with new and richer graph types available, partly because its elements correspond to important summary statistics.

nao · ‎02-03-2020

This is what I wanted. And it seems it has always been there. Thank you very much! I hope someone else will find this helpful...

nao · ‎01-18-2020

Also, the text lines added by "Date Title on Output" and "Data Table Title on Output" in Reports Preferences menu should be preserved when an HTML report is created. JMP 15.0 discards these lines when it creates an HTML report. By the way, these lines added by "Date Title on Output" and "Data Table Title on Output" really damage esthetics of the report. Personally I believe these should be added to the bottom, maybe within an Outline Box. Also, double quotation signs should be treated as they are. JMP 15.0 replaces them with "-".

nao · ‎01-18-2020

For others, I want to clarify what JMP already offers and what it does not. "Data Table Title on Output" in Reports Preferences menu will add not only Data Table name, but also the Where clause when the report has one specified in its script. But when Rows are excluded beforehand and a report is generated through GUI, no Where clause is specified when the report is created and nothing other than Data Table name will appear on the report, which is problematic. I also want number of rows used in the analysis.

nao · ‎01-18-2020

In reality, unfortunately in my opinion, Microsoft Excel is still the de facto standard for exchanging table-formatted data. Even Google Spreadsheet now lets users work on Excel files, rather than forcing users to convert Excel files to Google's format. I personally often export JMP tables as Excel files for sharing them with "users" of my analysis. I wish JMP respects major formatting options when it exports a Data Table as a Microsoft Excel file, specifically: - Column Width - Data Type, e.g., Numeric Column in JMP as Number in Excel - Format of Numeric Columns - Value Labels - Scroll Lock It does not have to be perfect. Maybe the JMP team already have a JMP Live-related alternative to sharing Data Tables with non-JMP users in a smarter way?

nao · ‎01-18-2020

For those who use "matching" techniques, e.g., propensity score, mirror histogram is a common way of visually showing how similar or different a distribution of a continuous variable is between classes (categorical variables). For publication, we believe, it must be MIRRORED. I draw mirror histograms using my custom made script and want an easier way. One way of making it possible to draw a mirror histogram as a standard feature may be to add a category-specific "flip axis" option in Graph Builder platform.

nao · ‎01-18-2020

When you Concatenate multiple Data Tables through GUI, a script to reproduce this operation will be created as a Data Table Script. When you Update a Data Table with data from another, no such script is left. I want one.

nao · ‎01-18-2020

Excluding rows allow users flexibility to focus on subsets of observations, but could lead to serious errors when reports are handed to others. I want "Total number of rows in the Data Table", "Number of excluded rows" and "Number of included rows" in addition to "Date Title on Output" and "Data Table Title on Output" in Reports Preferences menu.

nao · ‎01-17-2020

I do store well-formatted versions of scripts as text file separately. I hope JMP preserves the format.

nao · ‎01-17-2020

Kudos to both ideas. Column Group name should also appear in Column Info Window (and the user should be able to switch it here).

nao · ‎01-17-2020

Plus one Kudos to the idea of coloring the Column HEADERS, because I often use Value Colors and Color Gradient Column Properties for easily identifying outliers, etc.

nao · ‎07-25-2019

Thanks! That's exactly what I wanted. Accept my apologies for bothering. I hope this page will also help someone else.

nao · ‎07-25-2019

It will be convenient if there is a function that accepts a value and a name of a color gradient and returns a color code.

nao · ‎06-20-2019

@julian, thank you for your comment. I tried "Expanded Estimates" and found that it (1) does NOT work in combination with "Indicator Function Parameterization" and only shows JMP's rather unique coding scheme (https://www.jmp.com/support/help/14-2/nominal-factors.shtml), and (2) does NOT even exist in (Nominal/Ordinal) Logistic Fit report. I wish JMP will provide a similar table for "Indicator Function Parameterization" in (Nominal/Ordinal) Logistic Fit report. It will be even more handy if this can be called from a red triangle menu attached to the outline box of the (two kinds of) parameter estimate tables, or right-click menu of those tables.

nao · ‎06-20-2019

I routinely compress data. This is very useful when you need to work on a large data table. Here is another trick: when you need to work on a huge dataset but you regularly use only a limited number of columns and there are many minimally (or never) used columns, you can speed up things by detaching less frequently used columns using Subset command/function, creating a shared ID column on both tables, and link them via Virtual Join.

nao · ‎06-20-2019

Thanks for your clarification. I definitely love JMP's ability to take advantage of multicore processors in some specific tasks, like showing histograms of multiple columns. I also appreciate JSL's capability of multi-threading enabled via Parallel Assign() function. A little trick that I often use is to start a separate instance of JMP while some time-consuming task is being processed. The issue arises when we fail to predict a time-consuming task in JSL, typically going through a big data table, and find JMP freezing without even showing a progress bar. In such situations, working on a separate JMP instance is helpful, but JMP is not designed to facilitate such multi-instance use and it's typically very confusing and often inefficient as we need to pay a great deal of attention to which instance of JMP is doing what. I can't help missing RStudio, which sends codes to R running in the background and keep accepting commands while whatever time-consuming task is being processed.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

We get frustrated when we find JMP frozen after starting a script that takes a long time. But even in most such situations, only one CPU thread is active. JMP should be able to take advantage of today's multicore processors and keep working even while a heavy script is running.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

Search box that lets the user search Tables, Columns, Column values, Column Value Labels, Column Properties, Table Properties, Table Variables, other variables, JMP Help, JMP Sample Files,... just everything in JMP.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

Advanced users obtain results of platforms (e.g., Fit Model) by scripts. But for this, JMP forces the user to "scrape" the report, which is painful. It will be very helpful if the analysis results are, like in R, returned in a structured way, e.g., as an Associative Array.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

Suppose you run Graph Builder and choose a Column with 200 unique values for the x axis. You may find some values of this Column irrelevant and feel like filtering data by this Column. Currently, (in JMP 14), you will need to click the Red Triangle, add a Local Data Filter, and choose the same Column from the list. It will be handy if a Column can be added to a Local Data Filter by clicking an axis, etc. It will be even nicer if values of a Column can be chosen directly on an axis and hidden.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

Currentaly (in JMP 14.3), on reports of platforms like Fit Model, all the levels (unique values) of a Column is shown in the Parameter Estimates (and also in Indicator Parameterization Estimates) table, but the reference value does NOT appear on this report, which is confusing. Give an option to show the reference value in those tables.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

Currently (in JMP 14.3), Value Ordering is not respected in Graph Builder - Heatmap.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

This should be done in JMP way, which is to encourage visualization and exploration. - Overlaid mirror histogram - Love plot The below will also be very helpful (almost essential) - Calculation of SMDs (standard mean differences) between groups, before and after matching - Similar matching methods than propensity score matching, e.g., Mahalanobis distance matching and coarsened exact matching

nao · ‎06-19-2019

Every Column has Format and this should be respected in reports. The current problem is that, for example, when Distribution of a Column representing a date or time is shown, meaningless numbers are shown as mean, median, etc.

nao · ‎06-19-2019

Create a new Column Property "Reference Value" for Nominal/Ordinal Columns, which will be used for platforms like Fit Model. Currently, it's not easy to predict which value will be used as a reference. (This is determined either by Value Ordering or alphabetical order of values, but it's confusing for beginners and cumbersome for advanced users.)

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