{"id":16847,"date":"2017-06-24T11:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16847"},"modified":"2017-06-24T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T16:52:42","slug":"how-to-call-b-s-on-big-data-a-practical-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16847","title":{"rendered":"How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mind the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, articulated by the Italian software developer Alberto Brandolini in 2013:<strong> the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.<\/strong> Or, as Jonathan Swift put it in 1710, \u201cFalsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it.\u201d<em data-reactid=\"197\">Plus \u00e7a change<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/tech\/elements\/how-to-call-bullshit-on-big-data-a-practical-guide\">How to Call B.S. on Big Data: A Practical Guide<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, articulated by the Italian software developer Alberto Brandolini in 2013: the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Or, as Jonathan Swift put &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16847\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[532,475],"class_list":["post-16847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-analytics","tag-big-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16848,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847\/revisions\/16848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}