Despite his well-known love for economic data, and poring over the latest reports from every statistical agency, he did not realise that he was sitting on a housing bubble of epic proportions.
In spite of her professed love for empirical data, she added, "Elite opinion is always on the side of doing things that really disadvantages the vast majority of Americans".
And while he is renowned for his love of data, as well as his caution, every presidential candidate since Mr. McGovern has had the same goal in the vice-presidential search: no surprises.
He is honest, independent, and has a love of data and a deep desire for the truth.
"I'd love for all the data to be public," said Jennifer Carney, director of program evaluation at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which conducts education research.
To these assorted exculpations I reply: "Do me a favour, love!" (For those whose mental data cloud does not include a section marked Public Wallyfication, this refers to Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys discussing the West Ham vice-chair, Karren Brady, off-air).
Ultimately there is no limit as to what kind of goods and services those could be: they might have started with browsing and social networking, but they are as happy to track us exercise, eat, drive or even make love: for them, it's all just data – and data means cash.
And according to Google's data, the love for tulle skirts started on the West coast and has twirled its way across the country.
Mr. Dediu said customer satisfaction data showed continuing love for everything Apple sold.
As a quantitative market researcher, I have a love for combing through large amounts of data in search of answers to interesting and challenging questions.
