Visual Six Sigma: Making Data Analysis Lean

by Ian Cox, Marie A. Gaudard, Leo Wright

Because of its unique visual emphasis, Visual Six Sigma opens the doors for you to take an active role in data-driven decision making, empowering you to leverage your contextual knowledge to pose relevant questions and make sound decisions. This book shows you how to leverage dynamic visualization and exploratory data analysis techniques Whether you work involves a Six Sigma improvement project, a design project, a data-mining inquiry, or a scientific study, this practical breakthrough guide equips you with the strategies, process, and road map to put Visual Six Sigma to work for your company. Broaden and deepen your implementation of Visual Six Sigma with the intuitive and easy-to-use tools found in Visual Six Making Data Analysis Lean.

492 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

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[Warren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Visual Six Sigma by Ian Cox is in two parts.

In Part I
Ch1 introduces data-driven-decision-making, and transformation of moving to a focus on 'data discovery' processes. Ch3 introduces JMP software (it's visual; see Ch2), and how it puts data-driven-decision-making into practice.

In Part II
Chapters 4 to 9 are case studies.