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The obsession with [[big data]] has a few implications:  
Beware an over-commitment to [[data]] analytics:
===It is [[premium mediocre]]===
===It is [[premium mediocre]]===
Firstly it expresses a preference for the ''aggregate'' over the specific, and the ''average'' over the outlier, the individual, the unique or extraordinary. It is to prefer the mediocre, for its weight of numbers, over the isolated vision of a genius or the depravity of the ugliest man.   
Firstly it expresses a preference for the ''aggregate'' over the specific, and the ''average'' over the outlier, the individual, the unique or extraordinary. It is to prefer the mediocre, for its weight of numbers, over the isolated vision of a genius or the depravity of the ugliest man.