Graphs and data are always there for us, especially if we want to look back in time and find the exact moment that something changed. Today I’m presenting a bit of a poem of images about time series.

• Here’s the exact moment that Robert De Niro “gave up” on his career.

• In episode #576 of NPR’s podcast Planet Money, they highlight moment when women stopped coding.

• Here a more scientific article uses time series to determine when bacteria became flesh eating monsters which comes along with a peer-reviewed article.

• Even the Onion gets in on the action. They claim that FB has a new feature which tells you exactly when things are over.

Time series can be intuitive and very easy to understand. They are a great tool for looking at how something has changed over time.  In fact, the 6 Sigma methodology has made a whole theory around controlling processes with time series graphs.

Time series are great for helping pinpoint the moment when…