Your brain can’t do the math when you see a list of video timestamps or calls logs. Some are all over the place; others seem … Read More

There are two thousand numbers on a spreadsheet. You want to make a chart so your boss can see what they look like; but it … Read More

Imagine that you have a list of 200 customer satisfaction scores and want to create an understandable chart out of them. The typical instinct is … Read More

There’s something satisfying about watching a chaotic jumble of figures come together into a tidy line. Some raw data points, like delivery times, or exam … Read More

The first step is to take a raw count, except that a pile of surveys doesn’t really convey much information (unless you have some idea … Read More

All that raw data lives in spreadsheets somewhere. It is messy and it is unorganized. You might have hundreds of numbers; but how do you … Read More

The Gini Coefficient measure how equally or unequally a value is divided in a group. Think about a pizza divide among 10 people. On one … Read More

Because raw numbers don’t necessarily align with real world accuracy, it’s common for your warehouse floor to appear chaotic while your spreadsheet prediction appears perfect. … Read More

There’s something about checking the prediction against reality that give you this particular type of anxiety. Before doing the math, you’re looking at a sheet … Read More

It’s hard to predict future, and so you measure how wrong you were when you got it wrong. Maybe you predicted the weather, or traffic … Read More