Ensemble

Step up from the single instance to the whole set it belongs to. Instead of studying one case, study the population or system of like cases and ask what the distribution shows: how often, how much spread, which outliers, what the group does that no single case reveals.

Step up from the single instance to the whole set it belongs to. Instead of studying one case, study the population or system of like cases and ask what the distribution shows: how often, how much spread, which outliers, what the group does that no single case reveals.

Example

Rather than replaying yesterday's slump, chart all 60 weekday afternoons from the past three months. The set shows the crash hits 48 of 60 days, but never on the nine days you skipped a restaurant lunch, pointing at the meal instead of at sleep.