Information about information

I liked this post, Information about information, from a few days ago by Seth Godin. One of the challenges that my team is working with right now is figuring out how to take the huge amounts of data that we generate and create actionable information. We're making progress, but there is still a huge amount of data that doesn't get reviewed in a timely manner. Sometimes it's weeks before we realize that the automated tests have actually found a bug. If we don't look in the correct time scale it appears to be noise in the system, but if we look graph out a couple of months of results onto a single page, sometimes a pattern leaps out.