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Writing for the McGraw Hill Business Blog, Kaiser Fung describes two cases in which individuals with what he calls keen "numbersense" doubted the front-page conclusions drawn from analyses of Big Data.
Fung, who has written a book called Numbersense, says that in a Big Data "world of confusing and contradictory findings," skeptics like Zoë Harcombe and Felix Salmon will have a competitive edge:
Their well-honed numbersense allows them to stand firm in the face of mountains of data, worship of high science, formidable-sounding technical jargon, and academic reputations.
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