{"id":2070,"date":"2015-03-12T18:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=2070"},"modified":"2015-03-12T18:59:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:59:23","slug":"in-the-era-of-big-data-we-consume-opinions-isnt-it-ironic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/in-the-era-of-big-data-we-consume-opinions-isnt-it-ironic\/","title":{"rendered":"In the era of Big-data, we consume opinions, isn&#8217;t it ironic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Before there were &#8220;serious&#8221; press and tabloids, now I don&#8217;t know how to find the difference, they all seem to be tabloids. Almost everything on newspapers are opinions and there is little &#8220;data&#8221;.<\/h2>\n<p>Today is the international day of the press without borders and to celebrate Reporters Without Borders is enabling access to certain websites in countries where they are inaccessible; I think is a nice initiative by the way.<\/p>\n<p>But next year I want to propose they will launch a campaign to recover &#8220;the verified data&#8221;, at least in the Spanish press.<\/p>\n<p>Another idea that comes to my mind is that press could notify in a given news the percentage of data and the percentage of opinion. In the same way than the food describes the % of ingredients and add the % daily recommended amount, I would like to see when I read a newspaper the percentage\u00a0 &#8220;data&#8221; and the percentage of &#8220;opinion&#8221; in a given news.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine!, in this way\u00a0 I can know if my quota of daily tabloids reading is covered.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2072\" style=\"width: 602px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/12\/in-the-era-of-big-data-we-consume-opinions-isnt-it-ironic\/newspapers-quality-of-data\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2072\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2072\" src=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newspapers-quality-of-data.jpg\" alt=\"Quality of Data Disclaimer\" width=\"612\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newspapers-quality-of-data.jpg 612w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newspapers-quality-of-data-300x234.jpg 300w, http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/newspapers-quality-of-data-384x300.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Quality of Data Disclaimer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Give me the data, and I will build my own opinion!<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there were &#8220;serious&#8221; press and tabloids, now I don&#8217;t know how to find the difference, they all seem to be tabloids. 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