Power of data
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The power of data comes from its embedded information content that has the potential to reveal truth. Even a set of badly encoded data, could reveal information about its source in ways that are not always intuitive from shallow observations.
The notion of counter-factuals
Data content may not be correct, but noise and lies included, reveal certain qualities and quantities of the realistic context of data collection. For more explainations on counter-factuals, see Judea Pearl's work on causation[1].
References
- ↑ Pearl, Judea (2000). Causality:models, reasoning, and inference. local page: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-77362-1.