2 month hiatus

OK, I have not posted in 2 months. The type of work I do has increased as a result of many businesses having to reduce their staffs. So I have been working a bit of overtime. Also I have been investing time in upgrading my kitchen. But there has been some minor progress in building my skills in Python. I did write a enough of a program to automate OWFS to log temperature data. This is the graph of my first run. Can you spot the odd trend ?



Now while I live in a place where it does get over a 100 degrees in the Summer, over 120 degrees seems extreme. So I did some troubleshooting and I figured out the issue. The sensor for the outside was close to the garage door. The sensor was factoring in the heat reflected from the garage door. I did expect a spike in temperature in the afternoon as the sun directly shines on the door at that time. To prevent this extreme spike from future readings I moved the sensor a few feet over to the side of the door. I ran the program for a day and the logs no longer showed the extreme spike. So the next time I run the program I should have a better set of logs to analyze.

Ishikawa/Fishbone diagram for 2009 economic problems

A skill in operations management is to identify root cause. At this time, the US economy is struggling. With your insight, we can track the issues to the root causes for our current economic problems. The Bernoulli on Business wiki site has a Ishikawa/Fishbone diagram. Take a look and suggest what changes are required to make this more accurate of our current economic problems. I will take your suggested changes and update the Ishikawa/Fishbone diagram until it is determined complete.

The link to the diagram: http://sites.google.com/site/bernoullionbusiness/Home/projects-on-the-burner/fishbone-diagram