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Alphabetical List of Features

JMP Data Table Features

A spreadsheet-like view of data at all times and multiple tables can be open
Columns panel and Column Info dialog—column attributes and properties allow you to build intelligence into your spreadsheet., assign modeling roles (nominal, ordinal or continuous), pre-assign analysis , use the Formula Editor to create a column of computed values, check values with list or range checking, assign special properties to columns for use in control charts and DOE, extensive library of date-time formats
Data management operations—a complete file management system for analytic needs. Concatenate (append), Join (relational and cartesian joins of two JMP tables), update option updates values, sort, subset (linked or not linked to original table, subset a random sample, transpose with optional By variable, split columns, and stack columns (complete columns or interleave values), Update command updates values in place (instead of creating a new table)
Design experiment—creates data tables that contain traditional screening, response surface, mixed level, mixture, Taguchi arrays and full factorial designs as well as custom and augmented designs
Express or suppress a formula defined in a column with the new Formula Evaluation option.
There is a Find/Replace command for cell values
Imported file sizes have a new limit of 10,000 columns and 128K per line per table.
Multiple data tables can be open open for analysis and data management
The JMP table—You can drag a part of a data table and drop it into another table. Browser panels on the left for Tables, Columns, and Rows help manage your data better by making attributes visible and accessible.
There is no row limit; the column limit is 215–1 columns limit. The real limiting factor is RAM memory because the JMP table must fit in memory.
The Row Editor brings up a window for browsing the columns of a data table one row at a time.
Rows panel—The row panel shows how many rows are selected, hidden, excluded, or labeled. Use Row Properties to color (color palette of 65 colors), mark (choice of 16 markers), hide, exclude or label selected rows; add, delete, or select rows, etc.
Save Formula and Suppress Formula Evaluation commands have been added to JMP.
Short integer option saves storage by allowing “n” byte storage as a field width specification for each column where “n” can be a positive integer >= 1.
The Summary command dialog allows the user to specify the name of summary statistics columns. The Summary command allows the inclusion of marginal statistics.
Tables panel—Table variables store important information about the data such as source, time, location, name or ID of the engineer or research investigator, etc. Table properties allow you to store scripts associated with that table. Activating the Run Script command can quickly regenerate the analysis.

JMP Tools

There are two kinds of tools, those that apply only for graphs, and those that apply everywhere else; Use the appropriate tool to interact with the JMP table or JMP analysis windows.

Graphics Tools

The Brush tool—When you click a rectangular selection window appears; drag to resize the selection. The tool selects the points in area encloses by the window.
The Crosshair tool—This is a movable set of axes. For example, use the crosshair on a fitted line or curve to identify the response value for any predicted value. When you press the mouse, the values where the crosshair intersects the vertical and horizontal axes appear and track as you move the mouse. On a ternary plot this tool displays triangular crosshair lines and values.
Drawing tools—In addition to JMP’s traditional annotation tool, JMP 6 has tools for drawing lines, ovals, rectangles, and polygons. These graphics can appear on reports, in journals, and in layouts.
The Hand tool—The hand (or grabber) tool is for direct manipulation or grabbing in plots and charts. In histograms from Distribution of Y, use the hand to change the number of histogram bars or to shift the boundaries of the bars; in spinning plots the hand gives fine control of the spin. Grab the plot with the hand by holding down the mouse button and move the hand about. The rotation of the spin axes tracks the movement of the hand; in a scatterplot matrix the hand tool drags the position of a column of scatterplots to a new position in the matrix; in a Cusum control chart the hand tool relocates the origin of the V-mask. For any x-y plot use the hand to scroll either axis.
The Lasso tool—The lasso lets you enclose and select an irregular set of points in plots very easily. Use Shift-lasso to extend the selection to multiple sets of points.
The “Line Width Scale” is located in the graph right-click menu, under “Marker Drawing Mode”. It has a numeric setting which acts as a multiplier for almost all lines in that graph.
The Magnifying Glass (Magnifier) tool—allows you to zoom in or out on any area of a plot, drag the magnifier to zoom in on any smaller triangular region in a ternary plot, drag for close-up view of hierarchical cluster dendrogram portions

All Purpose Tools

The Annotate shown as the ‘A’ tool—The Annotate tool creates a text box wherever you click in a JMP window. You can key in notes and draw lines from the box to highlight points, curves, or reported values.
The Arrow or Pointer tool—When the arrow reveals or conceals text reports in an analysis window, accesses pop-up menus, selects and highlights points in a plot, highlights histograms, and points to selections in dialogs. When in the spreadsheet the arrow accesses pop-up menus at the top of each column, selects rows and columns, and selects text for editing.
Custom toolbars—All commands in JMP can be displayed on a toolbar. You can show or hide any toolbar, customize a toolbar, and create your own toolbar. You can have up to four user-created toolbars with eight buttons each.
Line tools—tools for drawing lines, ovals, rectangles, and polygons. These graphics can appear on reports, in journals, and in layouts.
In addition to the usual mouse support, JMP pays attention to the context click. With the right mouse button (or control-click on the Mac) JMP displays a context menu of commands appropriate for where you clicked.
The Question Mark tool—This tool accesses help. Select this tool and click on graphs, plots, or tables to get help for that object.
The Scissors tool—shows as a plus cursor and selects territory according to the hierarchy of the report. The plus cursor must not only know how to make a picture, but also a journalable hierarchical representation of the display data, and this means that the selection must correspond to underlying display elements.
The Scroller tool—allows you to grab a report and scroll by dragging. This is a simple tool, but is good for showing how the stick-to-top surface behaves. The scrolling has inertia and friction, so you can push the surface and it keeps scrolling at a slower rate after you release the button.

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