🔮  “Data isn’t sacred…”

“…it’s a resource like any other.”

In this Towards Data Science article by Cassie Kozyrkov, we take a step back to evaluate our data collection system. How are we gathering information about our process? What’s the sampling plan? And, how precise do our measurements need to be? 🤷‍♀️

“Begin with why: why are you collecting data?” 🤔

 Let’s take a look at an example. In this recent recording, I talk through a quality control example from Gorilla Glass makers, Corning: video

If you can make it easy to collect shop floor data in a controlled way, then you get good data. And, good data leads to good decisions. 👊😁

👷‍️ How it’s made

  • Ketchup? or Catsup? …Potato? Potato?
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🛠 Cool Tool

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📚 Historical Society

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🎢  Tangent

  • There are hundreds of billions of stars within the Milky Way, which is just one galaxy among trillions
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