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But, paradoxically, crypto is much *more* reliant on trust than the rest of finance and business. It only works if people believe in it.
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Bloomberg
More to the point, they [jittered strip plots or distribution heat maps] make more *visual sense* than box plots, so audiences grasp them in seconds instead of minutes, and they’re less prone to misinterpretation. **Ultimately, this means that using these chart types instead of box plots substantially improves the odds that your audience will understand and act on your distribution-based insights.**
I’ve Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
Nick Desbarats
We have built many projects, and we believe the most valuable summary indicators are:
• Dτ = Delivery lead time. Product teams may say "from concept to customer" or "from idea to implementation".
• Dμ = Delivery service rate. Devops teams may say "deployment frequency" or "we ship X times per day".
• Dε = Delivery error ratio. Quality teams may say "change fail rate" or "percentage of rollbacks".
• Rτ = Restore lead time. Site reliability engineers may say "time to restore service" or "mean time to restore (MTTR)".
Queueing Theory
joelparkerhenderson
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