Michael Hecht, JMP Principal Systems Developer, SAS JSL, the powerful scripting language in JMP, can be used to extend the software’s features in a variety of ways. But when your JSL script has an international audience, what is the best way to localize its user interface? This paper describes the tools and methodology used by the JMP development team to localize the JSL scripts that are built in to JMP. You can combine these same tools with your own methodology to give your scripts an international appeal. ... View more

Michael Hecht, JMP Principal Systems Developer, SAS   Abstract JSL, JMP’s powerful scripting language, can be used to extend JMP’s features in a variety of ways. But when your JSL script has an international audience, what is the best way to localize its user interface? This paper describes the tools and methodology used by the JMP development team to localize the JSL scripts that are built-in to JMP. You can combine these same tools with your own methodology to give your scripts an international appeal.   Download the attached full paper and supplemental materials. ... View more

For the past several versions, JMP users have been able to customize their menu bar on Windows. They can add new menu items, rearrange the existing ones, or simplify their user interface by removing items they don’t use. Now Mac users can do these same things in JMP 12. Users can create new menu items to run simple JSL snippets or complex scripts, allowing them to tailor JMP to their specific application. Here’s an example that adds a new command to launch Principal Components with specific options preselected. We hope this new flexibility allows you to streamline your JMP workflow and increase your proficiency. ... View more

This week, I'm in sunny Orlando for SAS Global Forum 2012. I'm here talking to people about JMP Graph Builder for iPad. If you're attending the conference, stop by the JMP booth and say "hi." Or catch one of my Super Demos at 1pm Monday or Tuesday. I'll be showing the latest update to the Graph Builder iPad app, which contains some nice new features. The update is available now from the App Store. Retina Display The Graph Builder iPad app now fully supports the Retina display on the new, third-generation iPad. Every icon; every word; every line, marker, and map -- all are displayed at full "retina" resolution. If you have a third-gen iPad, you will definitely appreciate this enhancement. Dropbox You asked for it, and we listened. Dropbox is now fully integrated into the Graph Builder app. Drop your JMP data tables into your Dropbox within a special folder just for Graph Builder and instantly access them from your iPad. Create new graphs, and then send your updated data tables back to your Dropbox. Graph Properties This update lets you customize your graphs even more. With the Graph Properties editor, give your graphs an eye-catching background color, or remove borders you don't want to show. And if you don't want your graph to have a legend, you can now turn it off.   Expanded Data Table Support The first version of the Graph Builder app could only open data tables in the JMP 7 format or later, if they were created on a machine with an Intel processor. But we heard from many of you that you have plenty of JMP data tables created on older PowerPC Macs. So we've updated Graph Builder to support those files, too. Have fun building graphs with this update, and I'll see you at SAS Global Forum 2012 in Orlando! ... View more

Yesterday I posted about the different ways to move your JMP data table from your desktop to your iPad, so you can use it with JMP Graph Builder for iPad. Once you've done that, you'll most likely want to share your discoveries with other people. Sharing is one of those virtues that's considered generally good for humanity, so I think it's worthwhile to spend a little time listing all the ways you can share your Graph Builder results. The Silver Screen I'll start by stating the obvious because sometimes it gets overlooked. But if you have an iPad 2 or the latest 3rd-generation iPad, you can simply plug a video adapter into your dock connector and project the iPad screen onto a big screen for all to see. If you carry your iPad to meetings, just plug it into the projector that's probably already in your conference room. Now it's super easy to collaborate with your colleagues and analyze your data live. Or if you're in the classroom, show your students directly how to find outliers or compare means. All you need is an adapter — Apple sells flavors for HDMI, VGA, and Composite video. By the way, Graph Builder looks stunning on the new iPad. Graphs are drawn at full resolution, which makes lines and markers look incredibly crisp. iTunes — Getting the Data Back In Part 1, I described how to move your data table to the iPad via iTunes. Well, you can use that same process in reverse, to sync changes to your data table back to your desktop. First, tap the  icon (we call it "Share"), then choose "Send to iTunes". You get a message confirming that your data table was "copied to the iTunes folder," whatever that means. What it means is that your data table was copied to a location on your iPad where iTunes will sync it back to your desktop. Once you plug up, click the "Sync" button in iTunes and the data table gets transferred. You can now drag it out of the Graph Builder Documents list to finish the reversal of yesterday's process. This is useful if the data came to you from some initial source other than iTunes, like from email or a Web page. You might want a copy of that table back on your desktop, and this method will do the job. But if the data came from your desktop through iTunes to start with, is there any point to sending it back? Since you can't actually edit the values on the iPad, what would have changed? It turns out that if you create new graphs in Graph Builder on your iPad, then those graphs are saved within the data table as table scripts. If you send the table back to iTunes, you'll notice the new scripts. You can even run them in JMP and reproduce the same graphs you created on the iPad. Pretty cool! Also — and this is a bit geeky — if you change a column's measurement type, by tapping its icon next to the column name while in Edit mode and picking a value of Continuous, Ordinal, or Nominal that is different from the current setting, that change gets sent back too. Email — Spreading the Word Just as you can open a data table attached to an email message in Graph Builder, you can also send a data table to others through email. Tap the Share icon, and this time choose Email. Now you have a choice: You can choose to attach your data table to an email, or you can send a snapshot of the graph you're viewing. And that graph can be sent in two ways: as an image or as a PDF. Emailing the data table doesn't need an explanation. But if you just want to send a graph, how do you choose between Image and PDF? It depends on whom you're mailing it to. If your recipient is a Mac user, then PDF is probably the best choice. That sends them a beautiful image that they can scale up or down, and it still looks great. Windows users can deal with PDF, but they might prefer Image, which sends a PNG file with a fixed resolution. Windows email also makes a distinction between an attachment and an inline image — a distinction not made on the iPad or the Mac. Usually, Windows users will see your graph as an attachment: a file within the email that they have to open with another program to view. But if you send the email as "rich text" and you attach an Image, it shows up "inline" within the body of your message. To send the message as rich text, just apply a bit of formatting. Make a word bold or italic. It's even sufficient to "change" the text color to black. Print — The Non-Green Sharing Option If you need a hard-copy printout, you can create it directly from Graph Builder. The "Print" option on the Share menu lets you send your graph to an AirPrint printer. Finding such a printer might be the hard part! The Clipboard — Sharing with Other Apps The final option on the Share menu — "Copy to Clipboard" — is the first half of the familiar Copy-and-Paste paradigm. Tap "Copy to Clipboard" in Graph Builder; then switch to Pages, Keynote, or some other iPad app and Paste. Your graph gets inserted into that app's document. Pretty simple. So in conclusion, Graph Builder is a good iPad citizen that plays well with others. Get familiar with these techniques and share your discoveries with all your friends! ... View more

So you've loaded JMP’s new Graph Builder app onto your iPad. But now you want to use it to analyze your own data. How can you get your data onto the iPad so you can do something useful with it? And once you've done that, how do you share the graphs you built? Today, let's tackle the first of those questions: moving your JMP data table to the iPad. There are several ways to do it. Some are easy; some are more difficult. But let’s go through all of them so you'll know what your options are. iTunes — Tried and True The basic way of moving data from any desktop app to its iPad cousin is through iTunes. This may not be immediately obvious, but it kinda makes sense in a weird way: You use iTunes to move your music and your photos to your iPad, so why not use it to move your JMP data tables, too? When you plug a cable from your iPad’s dock connector into your desktop’s USB port, iTunes most likely pops up automatically. If it doesn’t, just launch it. Under DEVICES on the left sidebar, your iPad shows up as always. Select it and then choose Apps from the row of tabs across the top. Scroll down a bit in this window to the File Sharing section. Like the screen says, you can see a list of your apps that support transferring documents between your computer and the iPad. I have not yet transferred any JMP data tables to my iPad; but if I want to do that, I simply drag the tables into the big empty list on the right. Then I click the “Sync” button, and the tables are copied to my iPad. Here’s what iTunes looks like after I’ve synced Flights.jmp, Quake.jmp and Solar.jmp to my iPad. But where on my iPad did they go? When I open Graph Builder, I don’t see them. I have to first tap the + icon on the Graph Builder bar and then choose “Copy From iTunes.” Now I see them! I tap each one I want to copy and then tap OK; they are instantly added to my gallery. From there, I just tap the one I want to open, and I can immediately see all the Graph Builder graphs that were saved with the data table. Whew! That’s a lot of steps, and it requires a cable. (You can at least forego the cable if you check the “Sync with this iPad over Wi-Fi” option in iTunes.) But on the upside, you don’t need to use an intermediate server to get the data from here to there. Mail — Super-convenient! Let’s try a different method, one that has far fewer steps. Simply email the data table to yourself (or to someone else, for that matter). Here’s an email from a colleague that includes a JMP data table as an attachment. I simply tap the attachment and choose the option to open it in Graph Builder. Presto! I’m off and running. This is too easy. But it does make you pass the data table through your email server. And it might require a network connection if you haven’t yet downloaded the attachment from the server to your iPad. But what a convenient way to share! Website — One-to-Many This method is not for everyone, but some people will find it incredibly useful. If you have a website that you can upload files to — a wiki, a blog, etc. — you can leave a JMP data table there for other users to download. On their iPads, these other users navigate to your website in Safari and then click on the link to download your data table. Safari asks them if they would like to open your data table in Graph Builder. Try it on your own iPad now by navigating to our JMP Graph Builder Samples page. Tap one of the blue “Download” buttons, and you’ll see a dialog like this. This is a very convenient way to distribute a JMP data table to many people at once. Most high schools and universities these days have websites where instructors post their lesson plans. If the lesson involves analyzing some data that the instructor provides, what better way to distribute it? Further Down the Road We are working on new ways to move your data to and from your iPad. I can’t give too many details right now because the future is a bit cloudy. But look for an update to Graph Builder in the coming months with even more options. And tune in tomorrow for Part 2: Sharing your results. ... View more

I just love the iPad! In it, Apple has combined mobility and raw computing power with an amazingly responsive touch interface. When I first saw it, I thought, "We need to put JMP on this device!" And there is one component of JMP that practically screams to be on the iPad: Graph Builder. So about 18 months ago, a small team of us started porting Graph Builder to the iPad. We had in mind building an app that could open a JMP data table, show the Graph Builder graphs stored in it, let you change those graphs or make new ones, and share your results. If you take your iPad to a meeting, you could open a JMP data table from an email attachment and project a graph on a screen. Then you could play "What If" games with your data right there, collaboratively. Or you could use desktop JMP to prepare a data table of raw data for a class of students. They would download the data from your website directly into Graph Builder on their iPads. From there, your students would explore the data, build an analysis, and email the graph back to you. We were excited by this idea, but we wanted our new app to have a different focus from desktop JMP. There, when you open a data table, that's the first thing you see -- the data. Our focus is instead on the graphs, so we show you a gallery of your data tables with thumbnails of the graphs you've made for them. Tap on one of these and it opens, showing you a beautiful full-screen view of your graph. Of course, you might want to present the data in your table several different ways, so we let you store multiple graphs in each one. They appear as tabs across the top. But we wanted to go further. So we created a tool to let you inspect the numeric details of any graph. Tap-and-hold on your graph, and up pops the magnifier. This tool shows you a magnified view of what's under your fingertip, with tags identifying the axis values at that location. Some graphs will show you even more information, like the label for the data point you're pointing at; or the county, state, or country you tapped on. Just slide the magnifier around your graph to see all the details. But the real fun begins when you tap the Edit button. This puts you in "Edit Mode", where you can completely change your graph, or make a brand new one. Tap and drag columns from the list on the left to Graph Builder drop zones just like you do with desktop JMP. Graph Builder responds immediately. It's really fun to experiment! You can use the icons along the top to change what kind of graph you are creating. You can also tap-and-drag one of these icons to create a graph with multiple graph types, either overlaid or side-by-side. For fine-tuned control, tap the Info icon. From here you can control how Graph Builder draws your data. Want those bars stacked or that area plot overlaid? Just tap the switch. And under the Legend tab you can change things like color themes and line styles. We're thrilled to bring you this new app. We can't wait for you to start using it to explore your data and share your discoveries. But the best part about JMP Graph Builder for iPad is that it's free. Download it from the App Store and start building your own graphs today! Editor's Note: You can also check out the Help page for JMP Graph Builder for iPad. ... View more