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Continue reading →: Decidere: The Power of Decision
(Image Credit: Lucy Glover of Lucy Glover Photography, San Francisco, CA) I committed to a decision today. It was a big decision — one that’s been hanging over my head for many months. I am certain that this decision will impact the rest of my life, and it’s so personal,…
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Continue reading →: Everybody “Does Quality”
(Image Credit: Lucy Glover of Lucy Glover Photography, San Francisco, CA) In the October ASQ Influential Voices topic, CEO Paul Borawski asks how pervasive the quality function is in organizations, and asks how its value can be increased: My question is, how well understood and embraced are the contributions of…
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Continue reading →: Performance Measures for Classifiers: Precision, Recall, and F1
Here is a new, simple tutorial on how to evaluate the quality of a classifier. The attached doc shows you how to construct a confusion matrix, compute the precision, recall, and f1 scores for a classifier, and to construct a precision/recall chart in R to compare the relative strengths and weaknesses…
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Continue reading →: Access METAR Weather Data in R Statistical Software
Although this is neither quality nor innovation related, as a multi-decade weather geek and degreed meteorologist, I still really love my weather data. Today I wanted to learn how to retrieve historical weather data from within the R statistical software. I managed to get a list within R that contains…
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Continue reading →: Cramming for Your Six Sigma Black Belt Exam?
Are you making last minute preparations for your ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) exam? If so, you’re probably reviewing your notes, hoping that you’re bringing all the right stuff in with you. When I passed my CSSBB on the first attempt, I found that I had GREAT notes…
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Continue reading →: Fast Quality via Dynamic Capabilities
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) In his November post, ASQ CEO Paul Borawski comments on the rapid pace of change and asks to: “…share with us some of the ways the practice of quality is changing to meet the needs of faster, faster, faster. “ Fortunately, there has been a…
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