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# Minitab Blog | Insights

Tips and Techniques to Make Your Best Data-Driven Decisions

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### Top Posts - Insights

[Minitab Analysis Reveals Surprising Traveler Preferences for Top Vacation Rental Provider](https://blog.minitab.com/en/customer-preferences-revealed-vacation-rental-provider)

[To Insights and Beyond: The 5 Key Challenges & Learnings You Need to Know from 2019 Minitab Insights Conference](https://blog.minitab.com/en/five-key-learnings-from-insights-2019)

[What Would You Do with an Extra 120 Hours to Drive Improvement?](https://blog.minitab.com/en/what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-120-hours)

[Guest Post: Pruning Your Hypothesis Testing Decision Tree](https://blog.minitab.com/en/pruning-your-hypothesis-testing-decision-tree)

[How Molex Unlocked 10x Improvements in 12 Months: Secrets Shared at Minitab Insights Event in Dublin, Ireland](https://blog.minitab.com/en/how-molex-unlocked-10x-improvements-in-12-months)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/customer-preferences-revealed-vacation-rental-provider>

## [Minitab Analysis Reveals Surprising Traveler Preferences for Top Vacation Rental Provider](https://blog.minitab.com/en/customer-preferences-revealed-vacation-rental-provider)

[Hypothesis Testing](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/hypothesis-testing-2)  | 3 Minute Read

Learn how this Minitab Customer helped a top vacation rental provider find the root cause of its customers' growing dissatisfaction during the pandemic.

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/customer-preferences-revealed-vacation-rental-provider)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/five-key-learnings-from-insights-2019>

## [To Insights and Beyond: The 5 Key Challenges & Learnings You Need to Know from 2019 Minitab Insights Conference](https://blog.minitab.com/en/five-key-learnings-from-insights-2019)

[Automotive](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/automotive)  | 3 Minute Read

Didn't attend 2019 Minitab Insights? Don't worry - we've rounded up the 5 key challenges and learnings you need to know about.

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/five-key-learnings-from-insights-2019)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-120-hours>

## [What Would You Do with an Extra 120 Hours to Drive Improvement?](https://blog.minitab.com/en/what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-120-hours)

[Insights](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/insights)  | 3 Minute Read

Explore 3 key insights by a VP of quality for a $1.5 billion-dollar corporation about managing continuous improvement projects with Companion by Minitab.

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/what-would-you-do-with-an-extra-120-hours)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/pruning-your-hypothesis-testing-decision-tree>

## [Guest Post: Pruning Your Hypothesis Testing Decision Tree](https://blog.minitab.com/en/pruning-your-hypothesis-testing-decision-tree)

[Insights](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/insights)  | 5 Minute Read

Joel Smith is the Director of Rapid Continuous Improvement at Keurig Dr. Pepper as well as the co-author of the Applied Statistics Manual. He will be hosting a panel on Leading Successful Data Analysis at the 2019 Minitab Insights Conference.

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/pruning-your-hypothesis-testing-decision-tree)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/how-molex-unlocked-10x-improvements-in-12-months>

## [How Molex Unlocked 10x Improvements in 12 Months: Secrets Shared at Minitab Insights Event in Dublin, Ireland](https://blog.minitab.com/en/how-molex-unlocked-10x-improvements-in-12-months)

[Insights](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/insights)  | 4 Minute Read

Deirdre Hynes, Master Black Belt in Six Sigma for Molex, is excited to share details of her company’s transformation program which achieved ten times the improvements in 12 months. Deirdre shared the secrets of Molex’s success for the first time at the Minitab Insights Europe event in Dublin in November 2018.

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/how-molex-unlocked-10x-improvements-in-12-months)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/7-top-talks-from-the-minitab-insights-conference>

## [7 Top Talks from the Minitab Insights Conference](https://blog.minitab.com/en/7-top-talks-from-the-minitab-insights-conference)

[ANOVA](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/anova-2)  | 7 Minute Read

See what goes into a great Minitab Insights Conference presentation. Great stories others want to hear. Discovering new tools in Minitab software. Engaging walkthroughs of finding insights in your data, and recommendations on how to act on them. All packed into a few days of learning and fun.

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/7-top-talks-from-the-minitab-insights-conference)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/you-use-minitab-your-new-job-doesnt-yet-what-do-you-do>

## [You Use Minitab. Your New Job Doesn't (YET). What Do You Do?](https://blog.minitab.com/en/you-use-minitab-your-new-job-doesnt-yet-what-do-you-do)

[Design of Experiments - DOE](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/design-of-experiments-doe)  | 3 Minute Read

Rafael's previous employers used Minitab, giving him ample opportunity to figure out how to define experiments and variables to optimize detergent formulas most effectively. But Rafael's new employers didn't use Minitab. His boss challenged him to prove results before considering the investment.

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/you-use-minitab-your-new-job-doesnt-yet-what-do-you-do)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/mulligan-how-many-runs-produce-complete-data-set>

## [Mulligan? How Many Runs Do You Need to Produce a Complete Data Set?](https://blog.minitab.com/en/mulligan-how-many-runs-produce-complete-data-set)

[Design of Experiments - DOE](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/design-of-experiments-doe)  | 5 Minute Read

In our continuing effort to use experimental design to understand how to drive the golf ball the farthest off the tee, we have decided each golfer will perform half the possible combinations of high and low settings for each factor. But how many times should each golfer replicate their runs to produce a complete data set?

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/mulligan-how-many-runs-produce-complete-data-set)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/understanding-statistics/reducing-the-phone-bill-with-statistical-analysis>

## [Reducing the Phone Bill with Statistical Analysis](https://blog.minitab.com/en/understanding-statistics/reducing-the-phone-bill-with-statistical-analysis)

[Insights](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/insights)  | 5 Minute Read

Reducing the Phone Bill with Statistical Analysis

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/understanding-statistics/reducing-the-phone-bill-with-statistical-analysis)

<https://blog.minitab.com/en/data-analysis-and-quality-improvement-and-stuff/picking-the-perfect-plot-to-communicate-your-data>

## [Picking the Perfect Plot to Communicate Your Data](https://blog.minitab.com/en/data-analysis-and-quality-improvement-and-stuff/picking-the-perfect-plot-to-communicate-your-data)

[Insights](https://blog.minitab.com/en/tag/insights)  | 4 Minute Read

Picking the Perfect Plot to Communicate Your Data

[Read It Now!](https://blog.minitab.com/en/data-analysis-and-quality-improvement-and-stuff/picking-the-perfect-plot-to-communicate-your-data)

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