When Data Science Goes Wrong

When Data Science Goes Wrong

In the past week, there have been two interesting articles about bad data or manipulating data. The first one I read was about a “famous” Cornell food researcher whose 3 decade career is being called into question due to a batch of uncovered emails suggesting he and his research team were manipulating data to meet…

Rural Areas See No Job Growth Since 2007
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Metropolitan Areas versus Rural: Job Growth is Concentrated in Metropolitan Areas

I read an article in the New York Times, about a week or so ago, about how the rural areas saw a devastating collapse of job growth since the Great Recession (but I would almost think it began around 2000 when wages started flattening out). The author, Thomas Edsall, usually writes about psychological insights into people…