{"id":8806,"date":"2017-03-29T21:04:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T02:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8806"},"modified":"2017-03-29T21:04:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T02:04:07","slug":"better-data-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/29\/better-data-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Data, Please!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niall McCarthy on <em><strong>Forbes<\/strong><\/em> has the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/niallmccarthy\/2017\/01\/25\/u-s-solar-energy-employs-more-people-than-oil-coal-and-gas-combined-infographic\/#2a2bb0d02800\" target=\"_blank\">eye catching headline<\/a> <em>Solar Employs More People In U.S. Electricity Generation Than Oil, Coal And Gas Combined<\/em>, which sounds exciting. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s undifferentiated data &#8211; that is, it&#8217;s just a snapshot headcount. I would be more interested to know how many of those are considered to be permanent jobs, vs one time construction jobs, for example. But all we get is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs-images.forbes.com\/niallmccarthy\/files\/2017\/01\/20170125_Solar-1.jpg?resize=626%2C446&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"626\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not exceptionally useful. Definitely a political article masquerading as a data article. It might have been even more interesting to see, say, GW \/ worker, so we could make some quasi-faux judgments concerning the human efficiency in each industry.<\/p>\n<p>And, in ten to twenty years, a meaningful enumeration of robots employed in the industry may become commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>But this? Don&#8217;t look behind the curtain, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niall McCarthy on Forbes has the eye catching headline Solar Employs More People In U.S. Electricity Generation Than Oil, Coal And Gas Combined, which sounds exciting. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s undifferentiated data &#8211; that is, it&#8217;s just a snapshot headcount. I would be more interested to know how many of those are \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/03\/29\/better-data-please\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8807,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8806\/revisions\/8807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}