Archive for April, 2008

Systems and Improvement

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Dr. W. E. Deming was fond of saying in his seminars, “This diagram was on the wall in Japan.”  Deming, an esteemed statistician who is perhaps best known for his work in Japan, later made systems thinking one of the four parts of what he call the System of Profound Knowledge, profound, he said, because it is important and it is rare.

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Animated Time-Series

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

I recently was in contact with a site that specializes in baseball statistics (Bill James’s Organization) and the fellow with whom I was in contact suggested a take a look at a unique graphics presentation.  I did look and was amazed with what I saw.  You can see it here.

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