On Being a Data Skeptic - Cathy O’Neil

"To look at examples of existing centers of skepticism, we might wish to look at data skepticism as it currently exists in academia. Unfortu‐ nately, my impression having attended a recent academic conference on this topic is that there’s an unreasonable distance between academ‐ ics who study data and the culture of data from actual data practi‐ tioners. And while the academics are thinking about the right things—cultural effects of modeling, the difference between code and algorithm—the language barrier and hands-on experience differential is a serious ob‐ stacle, at least for now." See also http://strata.oreilly.com/2013/10/on-being-a-data-skeptic.html