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I'm sure there are other tools than time-series available to us...? Perhaps if we look at some of the potential questions we would like to answer we can find m

I'm sure there are other tools than time-series available to us...? Perhaps if we look at some of the potential questions we would like to answer we can find more suitable data science methods? Did Kodak have competitors in the X-ray film business? What happened to them? Did this packing material plant supply products to other companies than just Kodak? Did the company culture start to resemble that of another company after the briefing? (Hard but interesting.) Did their hiring practices change? Did they get cheap loans? Did they buy other companies? Was their HQ moved or renovated? Was someone pressured to leave due to political leanings? etc.

qubex 8y ago
Yeah because all of those can't be due to a booming postwar economy. Cheap loans, you say? So to keep Kodak quiet, the US government put pressure on some banks to give cheap money to Kodak so that to keep a few folks in one company quiet they'd have to deal with keeping a load of analysts, bank managers, and supervisors quiet in a plethora of banks? Pressured to leave for political leanings? You mean in an an organisation with a considerable number of possibly left-leaning academics on the eve of McCarthyism? Did they buy other companies? Gosh, I'm sure Kodak wasn't into the whole M&A thing. Et cetera, do you see my point?
- ganzuul 8y ago
  Is your point that no investigation should be made because coincidences exist? If so, no.