Why the Twins Were Right to Demote Alex Kirilloff to Minors

[Original_JB]

8 minutes ago, Reptevia said:

If the data isn’t accurate or useful, it’s as valuable as no data. 

Oh, isn't that the truth. I work in R&D at Seagate, and the number of staff meetings where the arguments essentially come down to the designers: : "the data doesn't match the models, we don't trust the data, you're doing something wrong"; the hardware test engineers: "the data is fine, your model doesn't take into account X, Y, and Z". "you're wrong". "no, you are".

[ashbury]

6 hours ago, Original_JB said:

Oh, isn't that the truth. I work in R&D at Seagate, and the number of staff meetings where the arguments essentially come down to the designers: : "the data doesn't match the models, we don't trust the data, you're doing something wrong"; the hardware test engineers: "the data is fine, your model doesn't take into account X, Y, and Z". "you're wrong". "no, you are".

Key is how closely the metric matches customer experience, or is simply the only proxy for it on hand.

Such a different domain than baseball, though.