Interactively exploring your data visually and intelligently with SAS JMP no longer requires lines of code and the design of complicated systems.
Hans de Roos CEO of Octoplus Information Systems, a SAS partner, recently explained at the SAS User Forum in Johannesburg the capabilities of SAS JMP as a visual analysis tool. Octoplus relies heavily on SAS JMP for many of its IT consultancy services such as business intelligence and data mining, as well as statistical analysis.
JMP is a powerful tool that allows you to interactively explore the results from your data visually. What makes it unique is its ability to hold all the data in memory resulting in quick response times. “With JMP there is no limit to the sizes or your tables and graphs, it is only limited by your computers own capacity,” says de Roos.
Hundreds of thousands of JMP users worldwide, are now able to delve deep into their data to understand their businesses inside and out. JMP as a desktop client to the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform enables even users without programming skills to access and explore SAS data interactively.
De Roos highlighted that what many people don't know is that JMP provides an excellent entry level into SAS; JMP can read and write from a SAS server and allows the user to write their own code. It is also designed to import files, show variables and do analysis. It can even import a stratified sample from the SAS server. Best of all, because it utilises multithreading, it can literally analyse millions of columns and rows in a very short amount of time.
Bubble plots, 3-D scatter plots and a host of additional features let novice and experienced JMP users alike explore data and animate up to seven variables. Graphic data filters select, exclude, hide or otherwise query data to answer “what if" questions based on any combination of factors and it automatically updates graphs and reports immediately to display query results. JMP graphs and analyses can be stored with the data, replayed and edited. In addition, users are able to drag data tables, journals, scripts, files and even e-mails into an existing project to facilitate collaboration.
“Another great feature of JMP comes in the form of the new 64-bit version which can read and memorise millions of records. For example, it can read and memorise six million records in less than nine minutes and then perform a frequency count on a character field in four seconds,” ends de Roos.
As a data mining and BI tool, JMP has its limits, but as the visualisation tool it was intended to be, it is limitless and will exceed all expectations.
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