Really thoughtful post by Angela Bassa on the importance of being skeptical when presented with 'data-driven' conclusions.

For the millionth time: “Data” isn’t ground truth.

Data are artifacts of systems—and boy, are this system and its metrics broken! https://t.co/DCFFmcmDWU
— Angela Bassa (@AngeBassa) July 22, 2017

All data is manipulated data. It doesn’t spontaneously appear inside a data frame.

Humans define what data is, collect it, interpret it…
— Angela Bassa (@AngeBassa) March 8, 2017