## Metadata
- Author: [[Benn stancil|Benn Stancil]]
- Full Title:: Data Arithmetic
- Category:: #🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: [[ser-data-driven-eso-sĂ-que-es-contranatura|Ser Data Driven, Eso SĂ Que Es Contranatura]], [[Ser data driven no es de guapas|Ser Data Driven No Es De Guapas]], [[Ser data driven no es de guapas|Ser Data Driven No Es De Guapas]],
- URL:: https://benn.substack.com/p/data-arithmetic
- Finished date:: [[2024-02-03]]
## Highlights
> There are a gajillion articles about 'the modern data stack' and 'data warehouse good' and 'how to do data modeling', and not a single one about what to do when you look at a chart. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hnnxq0xb4j9wq3zwka92tn96))
> Chin has been thinking and [writing](https://commoncog.com/becoming-data-driven-in-business/) about this problem for a while. His solution to our confusion, forged in the operational trenches of companies like Amazon and Toyota, is a six-step process:
> 1. Look at how things are going.
> 2. Figure out when things were going better or worse than usual.
> 3. Hypothesize why that might’ve happened.
> 4. Do more of the potentially good things and less of the potentially bad things.
> 5. See if things get better again.
> 6. Learn how things work. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hnnxybn0w1r9psk3kn6em3nz))
> he prescribes a way to find anomalies, called [[A chart from the 40s is all you need|A Chart From The 40s Is All You Need]], that have a [satisfying visual aesthetic](https://two-wrongs.com/statistical-process-control-a-practitioners-guide.html) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hnnxtv1jc5mkarccx1p4jmgr))
> *This* is why casinos, which [control every input on their gambling floors](https://gizmodo.com/how-casinos-use-design-psychology-to-get-you-to-gamble-1667182023), put dashboards on roulette wheels—not to inform us, but to bait our natural inclinations to see patterns in every chart. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hnnxxpqezhqspqy28vcdg4dy))
> don’t want to buy a business class seat on Twitter, not because of what it costs, but because who’s charging me for it ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hnny3bqygbpwtpcm8m7bzfg5))