Gish Galloping with the GOP
AI Generated image of Donald Trump leading a herd of MAGA in a Gish Gallop
Mfg. History: Die Change Challenge
With the looming Trump Trade War in the background, I’ve been working through stuff I accumulated over the years and every so often, a forgotten nugget pops up. From 1985 to 1992, an automotive trade magazine (Chilton’s Automotive Industries – now Automotive Industries) sponsored an […]
Trump’s Trade War: Waiting at the Go Line
As the clock runs down to Jan 20 and the Trump inauguration, I’m having flashbacks to Feb 20ish, 2022, when the world was waiting to see whether Vladimir Putin really meant to invade Ukraine. At the time, many pundits offered desperately hopeful predictions that “Putin […]
The Gun Industry Okey-Dokey
March, 2000 witnessed a crisis in the gun industry. I’ve been researching and teaching about business operations for 40+ years and I can’t think of any other industry-wide event that exhibited the sheer savagery of the gun industry’s collective public destruction of Smith & Wesson. […]
Process Flow Time Machine
This is a reposting of a blog article and corresponding PDF White Paper that I wrote in April, 2015. Click the following image to view the original PDF White Paper in a popup window. [dflip id=”11161″][/dflip] Problem Statement Figure 1 shows a distance-time diagram that […]
Video for Operations – Taking Measurements from Video
Please take a moment to watch a bit of the following video: A LOT of things in this scene might be worth measuring: The information to estimate answers to these questions is evident in the clip … but you have to extract it and the data […]
A Businessy Take on Mastodon
I was a late convert to Twitter. I dabbled about a year ago and then I discovered that Ukraine war news appeared there first. Everyone in the media, government and big business already seemed familiar with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the like. Everyone seemed […]
Hire Ukrainian Freelancers
Around the world, people wonder how to help the people of Ukraine. Our governments can provide arms, humanitarian aid and apply sanctions. That will help while the war is underway, but when it’s over, history tells us that these well-meant efforts will quickly fade away. […]
Lockdown Compliance – Who’s Running This Show?
I previously shared maps based on data from The New York Times showing how COVID-19 cases and deaths had spread across the US. It has infected nearly every corner of the US, although public perception probably links it more with urban centers like New York […]
A Different Perspective on COVID Numbers?
Since I have more time on my hands than I really wanted or planned, I’ve been working through various analysis and visualization options in the R statistics ecosystem. The latest exploration exploits the fine data collection that the NY Times makes publicly available at its […]
Sampling the Future(s)
About 30 years ago, I sat outside a seminar room at a product design conference. I recall meeting Tom Matano. In the 1990s, Mr. Matano was an icon and rock star in the industrial design world. He was the head of Mazda’s West Coast design […]
COVID By the Numbers
I haven’t written a post for nearly two weeks because I was engaged in a small project to stretch and enhance my skills. It’s been a year or two since I built a decent statistical analysis in R and Shiny. My most recent work product […]