Accountability Doesn't Mean Apologizing.

Data-driven Predictions Can Succeed-and They Can Fail. It Is When We Deny Our Role In The Process That The Odds Of Failure Rise. Before We Demand More Of Our Data, We Need To Demand More Of Ourselves.

If You Aren't Taking A Representative Sample, You Won't Get A Representative Snapshot.

New Ideas Are Sometimes Found In The Most Granular Details Of A Problem Where Few Others Bother To Look.

A Lot Of Journalism Wants To Have What They Call Objectivity Without Them Having A Commitment To Pursuing The Truth, But That Doesn't Work. Objectivity Requires Belief In And A Commitment Toward Pursuing The Truth - Having An Object Outside Of Our Personal Point Of View.

The Thing That People Associate With Expertise, Authoritativeness, Kind Of With A Capital 'a,' Don't Correlate Very Well With Who's Actually Good At Making Predictions.