JMP Data Entry

Purpose: Suppose we wish to create a data file that includes name, age, systolic
blood pressure, and level of education for 5 people. Our data file should include
the following data:

1) To open JMP, select Start/Programs/JMP IN 4/JMP IN 4. The initial
viewing screen is the JMPIN Starter menu. To create a new data file, select
New Data Table.

2) This opens the spreadsheet into which we'll enter our data. The default
name for the table is "Untitled 1". Let's change the name of the table to
"People". Click on the "Untitled 1" to the right of the red down arrow.

3) The editing window will open. Type in "People".

4) Hit the Enter key to close the editing window. We have now changed
the name of the table from "Untitled 1" to "People".

5) Now let's edit the properties our first variable (i.e., "Name"). RIGHT-click
"Column 1". This will open a context menu; select Column Info..

6) Modify the properties for variable 1. Change the default variable name
"Column 1" to "Name".

7) Change the default data type "Numeric" to "Character" (since names
are character strings and not numbers). The modeling type is not relevant
for this variable since it's a character string.

8) Click OK when you've finished selecting your data format options. Now,
enter the names for each of the people.

9) Double-click on the top cell of the column to the right of the "Name" column
to enter a new variable name.

10) Label variable 2 "Age"; hit Enter. RIGHT-click on "Age" (after closing the
editing window) to set the data properties for this variable. In this case, set
Column Name = "Age", Data Type = "Numeric", and Modeling Type = "Continuous".
Click OK when you've finished selecting your data format options. Now, enter
the ages for each of the people.

11) Enter the systolic blood pressure and level of education by performing
this process twice more. (Double click to open a new column. RIGHT-click to
open the data format menu.)

12) Now that we've entered all the data, we need to save the file. Select
File/Save As...

13) Navigate to the folder in which we wish to save the file by double-clicking
on the JMP IN Data folder.

14) Click Save to save our data file (People.jmp).

15) Now you can either perform analysis on this data (to be discussed in
a later segment), or close the table by clicking the "X" in the upper right
corner of the table. You can access this table anytime later by simply opeing
JMP IN, and then selecting Open Data Table from the Starter menu.