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Reading the signal

Separating what recurs from what is loud, and reading content rather than only scores.

The idea

How it works

A score tells you something changed. The comments tell you what, and the comments are what most organisations collect and do not read.

Loudness and frequency are different. One furious customer produces more text than fifty mildly inconvenienced ones, and only the second group is a pattern.

Working with it

In practice

  1. 01

    Code the comments

    Into a small stable category set. Free text that is never coded is text that is never used.

  2. 02

    Count frequency and weigh severity separately

    A common minor irritation and a rare serious failure both matter, differently.

  3. 03

    Read a sample verbatim

    Coding loses nuance. Someone senior reading twenty comments in full each month sees things the categories cannot show.

  4. 04

    Track the categories over time

    A category rising over several periods is a finding; one bad month is not.

One level in

The components of reading the signal

A component is something that exists afterwards which did not exist before — a deliverable or a mechanism, not an intention.

  1. The categories

    The stable set that comments are coded into.

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  2. The weighting

    Frequency against severity, held apart.

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  3. The verbatim sample

    What reading the raw comments shows that the coding cannot.

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One furious customer produces more text than fifty mildly inconvenienced ones. Only the second is a pattern.