New York Times managed this with eloquence.

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    So… then EVERYTHING is data.

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      1 year ago

      Kind of yes.

      Your comment consists of 30 characters, 4 of which are a dot. 11 of them are capitalised. At the time of writing you have 1 upvote from yourself and 3 downvotes. Meaning that people disagree more with your comment than they agree.

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        By your logic, I could post a meme of a cat, and you could count his tail then his ears. Then compare the “data.”

        And viola- DATA!

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          Yes, that is literally data. It’s useless data (unlike the visualization in this post that highlights the majority of cases that have gone to court for the January 6th '21 coup attempt).