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Tag Archives: Data
Friday Fun: Correlation
From the excellent xkcd comic. Related: Correlation is Not Causation – Does the Data Deluge Make the Scientific Method Obsolete? – Understanding Data – Theory of Knowledge – What Makes Scientists Different 🙂 – Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, Fun, Statistics
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Statistics for Experimenters in Spanish
Statistics for Experimenters, second edition, by George E. P. Box, J. Stuart Hunter and William G. Hunter (my father) is now available in Spanish. Read a bit more can find a bit more on the Spanish edition, in Spanish. EstadÃstica … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Data, Design of Experiments, Statistics
Tagged Bill Hunter, Books, Data, Design of Experiments, engineering, experiments, George Box, Madison, Statistics, Statistics for Experimenters
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What’s the Value of a Big Bonus?
What’s the Value of a Big Bonus? by Dan Ariely To look at this question, three colleagues and I conducted an experiment. We presented 87 participants with an array of tasks that demanded attention, memory, concentration and creativity. We asked … Continue reading
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Tagged bonus, Data, executive pay, experiments, extrinsic motivation, Psychology
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Easiest Countries for Doing Business 2008
Singapore is again ranked first for Ease of Doing Business by the World Bank. For some reason they call the report issued in any given year as the report for the next year (which makes no sense to me). The … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, Economics, entrepreneur, global, Japan, UK, USA
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Does the Data Deluge Make the Scientific Method Obsolete?
The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete by Chris Anderson “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” So proclaimed statistician George Box 30 years ago, and he was right. But what choice did we … Continue reading
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Tagged cool, Data, engineering, George Box, Google, Innovation, IT, quote, Science
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Management Blog Posts From September 2005
Here are some posts from the blog 3 years ago, this month. I took the photo on my visit to North Cascades National Park. Measurement and Data Collection – I have found it helpful to ask: what will you do … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, management, Travel photos
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Hiring the Right Person
Malcolm Gladwell presented at the New Yorker conference on the Challenge of Hiring in the Modern World. As usually, he provides some great thoughts. I wrote on Hiring the Right Workers The job market is an inefficient market. There are … Continue reading
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Tagged Data, hiring, management, Systems thinking, webcast
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Outcome and In-Process Measures
An outcome measure is used to measure the success of a system. For example, the outcome measure could be the percentage of people who do not get polio (the result). An output measure, for example, would be the number of … Continue reading
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Tagged curiouscat, Data, Process improvement
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Post Number 1,000
This is the 1,000th post to the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Here are some highlights: Post number 2: Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data – “We use data to act as a proxy for some results of … Continue reading
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Tagged commentary, Data, Deming, John Hunter, management, tags
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Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse
This article makes some good points, even if it is a bit sensationalist, and intentionally so: Harvard’s masters of the apocalypse by Philip Delves Broughton Business schools have shown a remarkable ability to miss the economic catastrophes unfolding before their … Continue reading →