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Data Collection

Hand gauge or CMM. Which do you use?

Shaun Wissner
Wed, 09/18/2013 - 12:39
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Last month, we started talking about data with the focus mainly on data management (aka data analysis) and only referencing data collection for a bit of context. Now I want to turn to data collection. Data collection is mostly about uncertainty (in this case “measurement uncertainty”) and more recently, thanks to increased computer power, the number of data points. Typically, we think of measurements as single entities, i.e., numbers on a report (bore size for example), or the distance between two features, and so on.

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