{"id":27403,"date":"2017-01-31T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3978533"},"modified":"2017-01-31T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:00:00","slug":"election-datascience-and-the-death-of-truth-cloudexpo-bigdata-analytics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/election-datascience-and-the-death-of-truth-cloudexpo-bigdata-analytics\/","title":{"rendered":"Election #DataScience and the Death of Truth | @CloudExpo #BigData #Analytics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Presidential election is finally over. The protests are winding down, they\u2019ve stopped burning cars in Oakland (for now), and the talks of California succession are waning. But I am struggling to return to \u201cnormal\u201d because in this election, truth got hammered. Many candidates treated opinions as \u201ctruth\u201d and a large portion of the American public grabbed a hold of these \u201ctruths\u201d as gospel. It may have been a good time to be in the \u201cfact checking\u201d business, but I\u2019m not sure how effective even the fact checkers could be given the spontaneous nature of \u201copinions as facts\u201d being thrown around, not to mention the people who create fake news intentionally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3978533\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Presidential election is finally over. The protests are winding down, they&rsquo;ve stopped burning cars in Oakland (for now), and the talks of California succession are waning. But I am struggling to return to &ldquo;normal&rdquo; because in this election, truth got hammered. Many candidates treated opinions as &ldquo;truth&rdquo; and a large portion of the American public grabbed a hold of these &ldquo;truths&rdquo; as gospel. It may have been a good time to be in the &ldquo;fact checking&rdquo; business, but I&rsquo;m not sure how effective even the fact checkers could be given the spontaneous nature of &ldquo;opinions as facts&rdquo; being thrown around, not to mention the people who create fake news intentionally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3978533\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27404,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions\/27404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}