Should I Sprint Like Crazy?
Good data should be used to guide our understanding and actions in projects, pandemics, and life.
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Deep Dive
In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel’s operations.
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Let Others Do the Work
It was a scrum. No, not the agile software method, but a bunch of people all racing after the current big defect found in the product. It was a badge of merit to be the first to figure out the defect and to report on its fix. My boss expected me to jump into this competition of egos when these problems happened.
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Run For The Hills?
This looks to me like a great case of brutal honesty, where we then get opportunists yelling run for the hills. Why, one may ask, is this happening?
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It’s Not All Big Data
The funny thing is many problems aren’t big enough to use the fanciest big data solutions. Sure, companies like Google or Yahoo track all of our web browsing; they have data files measured in petabytes or yottabytes. But most companies have data sets that can...
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This Time We’ll Do Things Differently, Promise
The B-21’s core design initiative has been to use mature and semi-mature components and subsystems not only to lower risk and to decrease development time and costs, but also to better ensure support for the aircraft over time. Although many look to history to predict...
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Yes, We Should Keep Our Data For A Long Time
Modern ethos is that all data is valuable, should be stored forever, and that machine learning will one day magically find the value of it.
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Dealing with the Uncertainty in Scientific Results
There is a growing recognition that many important research findings based on statistical evidence are not reproducible.
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Doing The Impossible By Using Simple Math
This is not to say Musk will realize his most ambitious goals: landing on Mars, electrifying much of the world’s transportation fleet, and accelerating the transition from a fossil-fuel to a carbon-free economy. But each is closer than most thought possible in such a short...
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Keeping It Simple For A Reason
Problems stemming from such errors can be very costly and have contributed to a wider concern about the reproducibility of research findings, most notably in medical research.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Project Statistics
Harvey’s term for torturing the data until it confesses is “p-hacking."
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The Magic of Just Putting a Spotlight on a Problem
I'll take the credit, but it was simply the magic of finally giving people the information and insight they needed to then get their jobs done.
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Murder He Calculated
Threats of federal intervention aside, it will be difficult to fix the problem of high murder rates without first addressing clearance rates. So it’s fortuitous, perhaps, that we are living in an age in which the analysis of data is supposed to help us decipher,...
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A Little More Science And A Little Less Politics
When it comes to economic data, it can be difficult to separate what people believe to be true from what they want to be true.
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Use Your Dark Data
In the same way that dark matter is an unseen but very large part of the cosmos , dark data represents the unseen but very large part of the data that most corporations collect and store.
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