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Wikileaks didn't invent data journalism.
Just as congratulating autocrats on their election victories is nothing new, Cambridge Analytica did not invent data harvesting for political gain.
In my experience, it is common practice for students to modify experiments, discard unwanted data and invent data that fit to get better grades.
Minutes after the polls closed, an angry Mr. Tudor charged that the vote was "the biggest fraud in the history of Romania" and claimed that pollsters had been paid $150,000 to invent data, bribe election monitors and sabotage vote-tallying computers.
"Cambridge Analytica was supposed to be the arsenal of weapons to fight that culture war". (Wylie left the firm in 2014 and is now regarded as the main whistle-blower against it). Just as congratulating autocrats on their election victories is nothing new, Cambridge Analytica did not invent data harvesting for political gain.
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Investigators reported last week that Dr. Schön had manipulated or invented data in 17 scientific papers published from 1998 to 2001.
For Dr. Fiddes was conducting research fraud of audacious proportions, cutting corners and inventing data to keep the money flowing from the drug industry.
Ranbaxy, he charged in a legal case in 2007, had invented data to win approval for drugs in America and for treatments for HIV patients around the world.
It is a view that reflects a growing realization among researchers that the real ethics issues in science are not so much the scandals that rock the field periodically -- charges of outright fabrications, invented data, theft of another's research.
Many of the technical services staff are adept at understanding, manipulating, and when necessary actually inventing data encoding schemes and at moving data from one to another (and adapting the data as required to the new encoding environment).
Here's the sort of stuff that might be invented: Data lock boxes.
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