Hacker News Reader

What counts as "shitty data" is a subjective question; worse, it's often a political question. So "don't use shitty data" is a reductive and completely unhelpful strategy.

View on HN

Data is shitty if it's intentionally adversarial, otherwise it's fine. Problem solved.

Intent has no bearing on the intrinsic quality of the data.

Sure it does. If I intentionally doctor data then it is low quality.

And what if you unintentionally doctor data?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com