After a New York Times reporter gave a critical review to the Tesla S electric car, its maker fired back with an attack based on data collected by the car's instruments during its test drive. Did that settle things? Not at all, Kent Anderson writes on the Scholarly Kitchen: "Data can help tell a story, but the story can’t necessarily be derived from the data alone. And big data don’t replace the right data, as Nate Silver showed us during last year’s US elections."
