This chapter delves into the 2024 World Happiness Report, highlighting Finland as the top-ranked country and discussing how younger individuals in the US may be impacting its lower happiness ranking. It also explores generational differences in happiness levels and insights from the report. Additionally, the chapter touches on control charts in data analysis, detailing the speaker's journey of understanding their significance in statistical process control and facing challenges in their implementation.
It happens occasionally. Someone in the business decides they need to just take the analysis into their own hands. That leaves the analyst conflicted — love the interest and enthusiasm, but cringe at the risk of misuse or misinterpretation. Occasionally (rarely!), though, such a person goes so deep that they come out the other side having internalized everything from Deming's obsession with variability all the way through the Amazon Weekly Business Review (WBR) process. And they've written extensively about it. Cedric Chin was such a person, and we had a blast digging into his exploration of statistical process control — including XmR charts — and mulling over the broader ramifications and lessons therein. For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.