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Big Data, Big Insights
You might think that more data means more information, but, unfortunately, it's not that simple. There is certainly no lack of data available nowadays, but that doesn't mean that there is also an equal increase of information to be found in the data. More data does not automatically equal better insights. The amount of data can, in reality, often obscure the information that we are looking for. It's good to have a guide through this data jungle, someone who can build bridges from data to insights.
Crossing the Bridge
Data Engineering, Data Management, Data Science
These three activities also apply, and possibly especially so, in the field of (geopolitical) news. We are innundated daily with data, that's called 'news', but more often than not the news is more noise than signal, and the information to be gained from consuming news streams is low. So our first task is to identify the data sources, collect data, determine the reliability of data sources and items, and filter out the noise.
Even though my focus is on the data analysis, it is almost always necessary to design and build systems for collecting, normalizing and storing the data first before analysis can begin. This is a crucial step, so I do that as well.
In news on geopolitical events, I've been doing that, since 2011. Not as my main job, which remained in IT Security, Solution Architecting and Programming. It has since become my main job, especially after 2022.
