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by Jacob Harris, ''Source'' (opennews.org) 22 May 2014 | by Jacob Harris, ''Source'' (opennews.org) 22 May 2014 | ||
Harris identifies 6 ways to make mistakes in reporting data | Harris identifies 6 ways to make mistakes in reporting data: | ||
*Sloppy proxieson | *Sloppy proxieson | ||
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What happened here was that a large percentage of IP addresses could not be resolved to an address any more specific than “USA.” When that address was geocoded, it returned a point in the centroid of the continental United States, which placed it in the state of—you guessed it—Kansas! | What happened here was that a large percentage of IP addresses could not be resolved to an address any more specific than “USA.” When that address was geocoded, it returned a point in the centroid of the continental United States, which placed it in the state of—you guessed it—Kansas! | ||
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Revision as of 18:49, 2 June 2014
Politics and porn (What's the matter with Kansas?)
Distrust your data
by Jacob Harris, Source (opennews.org) 22 May 2014
Harris identifies 6 ways to make mistakes in reporting data:
- Sloppy proxieson
- Dichotomizing
- Correlation does not equal causation
- Ecological inference
- Geocoding
- Data naivete
His principle example is a story that was widely covered in social media. It concerned but the biggest is related to "geocoding"
What happened here was that a large percentage of IP addresses could not be resolved to an address any more specific than “USA.” When that address was geocoded, it returned a point in the centroid of the continental United States, which placed it in the state of—you guessed it—Kansas!
Submitted by Paul Alper