Being Fooled By Data

• Data can be easily made up to serve ulterior motives, which are far from the truth.
• Biased data finds its way out and is generally passed around as facts.
• Some critical thinking and skepticism are required before any data is accepted for making decisions.

By deriving polling data from social media and quoting trending soundbites from Twitter and Facebook, real voices that may not be trending and of any interest to politicians, lobbyists, activists or business interests are losing ground.

• Big data is a combination of structured and semi-structured data collected by organizations that can be mined for information, machine learning, and predictive modeling.
• Big data draws broad patterns from massive amounts of data from large end-user or customer samples
• Big dat...