Power of Data

 "Portability and the process of decontextualization are responsible for both the power of data and its weakness. Data is powerful because it has been designed to be universally comprehensible. It has more weight in any large-scale social or institutional conversation precisely because it has been engineered for easy use. But that engineering procedure involves, necessarily, cutting out high-context understanding and specialized sensitivity.  The insensitivity and decontextualization nature is also precisely why data speaks so loudly. The power of data is inextricable from its price." C. Thi Nguyen, The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game