The danger, if there is one, is that the easy, on-demand access to reams of information from the internet may delude us into mistaking the data we download for genuine wisdom worth acting upon.
I've found that the biggest mistake on the data side is trying to present too much information.
"I know this is not the answer she wants, but I feel very strongly that doing the speech is a mistake ― the data are very clear on the potential consequences.
We agree that we made a mistake in the data extraction, and that the Mclaughin study was not correctly cited.
Top Sanders adviser Tad Devine also took to the spin room to defend an aggressive tweet he sent before the debate started, in which he compared his campaign's "mistakes" over the data breach to Clinton's mistakes in Iraq.
"It is me who reviews all the statistics to make sure we don't make any mistakes with the data.
This week, Representative David Obey of Wisconsin, an influential Democrat who helped write the stimulus bill, issued a blistering statement calling the mistakes in the data "ludicrous" and "outrageous".
In a letter to the budget office's director, Ronnie Lowenstein, the Education Department's general counsel, Michael Best, wrote that there were "significant mistakes in the data analysis".
It's a time-consuming process that leaves room for gaps and mistakes in the data.
Human operators then check over each area to correct mistakes before the data is incorporated into the maps.
Now it is quite common for the computer to contain inconsistent information, because of mistakes by the data entry operators or because of multiple sourcing.
