Podcast: Thinking with Data: Data tools are less important than the way you frame your questions by Jon Bruner.
From the description:
Max Shron and Jake Porway spoke with me at Strata a few weeks ago about frameworks for making reasoned arguments with data. Max’s recent O’Reilly book, Thinking with Data, outlines the crucial process of developing good questions and creating a plan to answer them. Jake’s nonprofit, DataKind, connects data scientists with worthy causes where they can apply their skills.
Curious if you agree with Max that data tools are “mature?”
Certainly better than they were when I was an undergraduate in political science but measuring sentiment was a current topic even then. 😉
And the controversy of tools versus good questions isn’t a new one either.
To his credit, Max does credit decades of discussion of rhetoric and thinking as helpful in this area.
For you research buffs, any pointers to prior tools versus good questions debates? (Think sociology/political science in the 1970s to date. It’s a recurring theme.)
I first saw this in a tweet by Mike Loukides.