NetApp

Brian McKean, a senior engineer at NetApp, gave a talk about his company in class. He shared a data problem for our class to help solve.

Tool

Tableau

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What is the distribution of the most common delta times per bin?

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What are the outliers when comparing max and min delta times?

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Which release did the worst job?

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Are delta times consistent across serial numbers?

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How much useable data (+/- 1 hour) is there?

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Further Analysis

Our team determines the following questions are too complex for Tableau and require custom scripts to be written.

  • (Pick out the system serial numbers that have useable data and return the ones that have consistently accurate data)
  • Determine an error range for acceptable delta times to indicate whether a system is reporting according to standards or not.
  • Determine the proportion of usable delta time in each release.
  • Determine the trend of delta times over time for specific systems
  • Determine the cause of poor delta times, whether it be the release, FW version, SW version or controllers