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“What I am going to talk about here are the cases where the chart is trying to communicate accura…#
“What I am going to talk about here are the cases where the chart is trying to communicate accurately and yet there are problems with the data that make it misleading anyway.”
https://improvingflow.com/2024/04/04/data-quality.html
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@darkuncle TIL Addax is a species of antelope endemic to N…#
@darkuncle TIL Addax is a species of antelope endemic to North Africa :)
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@darkuncle @adrianco …#
@darkuncle @adrianco Definitely - interested to hear how his thoughts have/haven’t changed since then
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Inefficient and unconscious use of an organization’s collective time and attention is problemat…#
Inefficient and unconscious use of an organization’s collective time and attention is problematic. Meetings can be an effective way to squander that capacity.
I doubt that expecting AI to extract meaning from cognitive overload will improve the situation.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2075599/kill-meetings-before-meetings-kill-your-company.html
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“Data collection - Tag each instance with its permutation - Gather metrics by p…#
“Data collection
- Tag each instance with its permutation
- Gather metrics by permutation per instance
- Do R-based Design of Experiments analysis”
https://www.slideshare.net/adriancockcroft/epidemic-failures
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“Detective controls are things, like an SBOM, we can do to validate a system is still in compli…#
“Detective controls are things, like an SBOM, we can do to validate a system is still in compliance as the things around the system change, like the dependencies. Your running software itself will not change while in production, but an exploit could be identified.”
https://itrevolution.com/articles/sboms-and-more-investments-unlimited-series-chapter-10/
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“And with this change comes a world of uncertainty and anxiety where predictable performance fo…#
“And with this change comes a world of uncertainty and anxiety where predictable performance for any business seems more and more like Deming’s red bead experiment: random. The results can be devastating to a business. The worker no longer trusts that they won’t be a replaced by a machine. The investor no longer trusts that they will get a return on capital. The manager no longer trusts that they will have employment for life after more than a bad quarter or two.”
https://hbr.org/2016/06/the-management-thinker-we-should-never-have-forgotten