by Joe Godfrey | Oct 15, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
A lot of analysis requests begin with “Something bad just happened and we had to divert and land. Is there something in the data that would’ve told us this was about to happen?” Our first reaction is usually relief – that the pilot got on the ground...
by Joe Godfrey | Sep 16, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Baseball has the cycle – single, double, triple and home run. What would that be for an analyst working a shift? Clogged injector is probably the single. Bad spark plug is probably the double. Let’s say the triple is a stuck valve. And the homer is a...
by Joe Godfrey | Aug 13, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
Apparently the 80/20 rule is also known as the Pareto Principle. Broadly applied, it means that 20% of your activities will account for 80% of your outcomes. In my previous careers in advertising and education, I would contend that 80% of stuff I spent my time on were...
by Joe Godfrey | Jul 17, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
It’s always fun at Oshkosh when one of the technologies of GA makes a move after spending a lot of time on the plateau. Avgas is the latest example. For years we just pumped it and worried about the short-term cost and the long-term availability, and now...
by Joe Godfrey | Jun 18, 2022 | SavvyAnalysis Puzzlers
I’m not spoiling the movie if I tell you that one of the opening scenes of Top Gun: Maverick is a pilot swinging a wrench on an owner-flown piston-powered warbird. That may be enough to make you want to see it, although from the box office numbers so far they...
