The Math Behind the Perfect Free Throw
Some 20 years ago, my colleague Chau Tran and I developed a way to simulate the trajectories of millions of basketballs on the computer.
Sustaining Predictable and Economic Operation: What Does It Take?
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Entropy. It feels a bit like that.
Credit: Gilles K
A Bell-Shaped Distribution Does Not Imply Only Common Cause Variation
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Credit: Luc Galoppin
Story update 9/26/2017: The words "distribution of" were inadvertently left out of the last sentence of the second paragraph.
Driverless Cars, Yes. Driverless Analysis... ?
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While we may happily trust the technology of driverless cars,
it’s important to remember that control charts are never driverless.
Credit: SparkFun Electronics
Inside Quality Digest Live for August 11, 2017
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Credit: Georgia Tech
Our August 11, 2017, episode of QDL looked at the role of technology in after-market service, stairs that help you up, Fidget Cubes, and more.
Scientists at Work: Forecasting the Atlantic Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Matthew approaching the east coast of Florida on Oct. 6, 2016