Tag: Process Behavior Charts

Are Your Charts Leading You to the Wrong Conclusions? Data is everywhere in today's organizations, but are we using it in the most effective way?...

When analyzing data, it's essential to avoid drawing conclusions from too few data points. This principle is crucial whether you're looking at TV ratings,...

Two-Year Comparisons in Major League Baseball Stats: A Strikeout, not a Homer It's just over halfway through the 2024 Major League Baseball season. Tuesday is...

Two data points are not a trend. Two-data-point comparisons can be mathematically correct but practically meaningless. This is true in workplaces and news articles like...

"A 'special cause' for celebration." Brian Buck, on LinkedIn TODAY marks the centennial of one of the most significant innovations in quality management: the control chart....

tl;dr summary: This post examines the trend of Tommy John surgeries in MLB and MiLB using Process Behavior Charts, revealing that the perceived surge...

Ah, it's another year of the Academy Awards. And that means, not surprisingly, another year with news articles that don't show much understanding of...

Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More!! The book was originally...

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Last year, I looked at the free throw statistics of Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons. News headlines talked about how much he had improved his free throws, so I looked at one of his performance metrics (free throw percentage) to see if the increase was "signal" or "noise." Why write about basketball? Well, there are lessons that we can learn and apply to our own workplace metrics, as I write about in my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More.

tl;dr: In the blog post, we delve into MLB's ongoing struggle with slow and lengthy games, analyzing recent rule changes aimed at reducing game...

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