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Early in my career, I worked for an unreasonable person.
He wanted us, his engineering staff, to show him the data. He wanted us to gather, monitor, analyze and display data regularly. Anytime we needed approval, funding, or resources he wanted to see the data. [Read more…]
Just back from a trip to Patagonia and catching up with emails and writing this morning. Posting an article for this list is due today along with a touch of travel weariness, decided to share a part of a question received concerning data analysis.
My thought is to post an actual question one of our peers is facing, and meet the deadline for this post. [Read more…]
We rely on data to make decisions, to reveal patterns or trends, to learn about our systems and world. Data has many forms and sources. Reliability data may provide what will fail and/or when a device will fail. [Read more…]
In Katmandu, I visited a small pottery factory. There was a young man sitting at a potting wheel making candle stands. He didn’t measure anything and I doubt anyone did.
Based on experience and just looking at a finished item, he could tell if it was acceptable or not. That was good enough.
One of the first things taught in a data analysis class, or in first-grade math, is the plot. A graphical representation of the data. Bar charts, pie charts, histograms, box plots, and the x-y scatter plot. These and others simply help us to understand the nature of the data.
The ‘nature’? The data is only a record of an observation. Counts, colors, numbers, or something similar. The ‘nature’ is, to me, the behavior, maybe pattern, or story the data may reveal.
EAM & CMMS Systems, 10 times more data in the system or 10 time less done with the data available?.
A nice short article about the problem of data, data, too much data.
