Saturday, May 15, 2010

Duality of Data

What is the duality of Data? Is it its perceived metric?

I work with data and in the duality of this world I have realized that data does one of two things it gives you information or it creates additional questions or like all good things somewhere in between.

So what is the metric on unemployment telling us? Does it create more questions or does it give us information. What happens however when it is gives you information that’s questionable and questions that are informational?

The questions that provide information are:
How is it calculated? What is it truly measuring?

I don’t know the true answer to this question but the following metric seems to be more informational and less questionable.

Food-stamp tally nears 40 million, sets record

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