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"It's a shame, data journalism is brilliant but the more we use it for factually-questionable scaremongering, the less people will like it".
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Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI director general, said the ranking "should not be used to name and shame firms, as data will only be able to present a partial picture, particularly given factors such as the mix of part-time and full working and sectoral differences.
But not putting the device back on the bird, he says, is a "shame" because the data from the tracked birds is valuable.
So it's a shame the new wave of data journalism hasn't gone a little further: the deep numbers and the big charts and the key explainers are your chance to personalize the news, to say what it means.
To others, it's a misguided over-reliance on incomplete or inaccurate data that publicly shames or praises educators, whether deserving or not.
There's no data on whether drought shaming really does save water.
Three months later, the panel publicly shamed Dr Obokata, accusing her of fabricating data, doctoring images and plagiarising.
But the problems with making high-stakes judgments from test data go beyond their misuse to "shame" teachers.
The Journal News has provided a public service; it's a shame that Mr. Keller and Mr. Carr deem that service merely inappropriately published data.
All that customer data is out there, and it seems a shame to throw it away.
In the Op-Ed "Shame Is Not the Solution," Mr. Gates argued against making teacher performance data public, writing that "shaming poorly performing teachers doesn't fix the problem because it doesn't give them specific feedback".
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