[HN Gopher] Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming
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       Statistical process control after W. Edwards Deming
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-11-27 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | key_stroker wrote:
       | This is a cool write up, I think since his death people did not
       | carry the legacy, and when I look at ai and machine learning it
       | feels like the opposite of SPC.
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       | There's a podcast I listen to by the Deming institute, the
       | presenters talk about his legacy and work and rarely about new
       | applications or techniques. Feels like the world of data driven
       | management is heading in the wrong direction.
        
         | nonrandomstring wrote:
         | Definitely! Shewhart and Deming are massively under-rated and I
         | agree that today's measurement-obsessive culture is heading
         | "Into the Crisis" not out of it.
         | 
         | Every once in a while I read the 14 points , almost like a
         | religious text to ask myself if I really do any of this, or
         | have slipped "into sin". :)
        
       | zippyman55 wrote:
       | I used SPC charts at work for analyzing ton (1000+) of different
       | computer generated jobs that had to run daily. The SW was always
       | under modification and the charts helped to catch the errors and
       | Pareto charts helped drive home people needed to fix their stuff.
       | I have to agree w one of the posters: " However, management did
       | not like that I was using something so old" and this was always a
       | struggle.
        
       | cardosof wrote:
       | I've used Deming's ideas to optimize ads and it did work way
       | better than bayesian ab testing or ML-based approaches. However,
       | management did not like that I was using something so old, so I
       | had to rebrand it, but it was Deming still.
        
         | nerdponx wrote:
         | I find it extremely weird that "data science" as practiced in
         | industry hasn't embraced statistical process control and
         | operations research.
        
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