Friday, March 11, 2016

[UPDATE] The Palm Beach Post located in West Palm Beach trashes city of West Palm Beach (and do you know who prints the Post?)

UPDATE: Zach Dennis is one of the social media content staff at The Palm Beach Post. Well, he's done it again like the doozy he came up with in January that you can read about below. This time he writes about crime in Lake Worth and this information has already been debunked! He's relying on flawed data from a real estate data site from Connecticut that doesn't understand Lake Worth Zip Codes. Believe it or not, if Dennis stumbled across this blog post he would have learned more about data collection and Garbage In Garbage Out (GIGO). 

Is this the new standard for the news as the Post stumbles head first into the new age of 'newspaper' reporting as beat reporters become a thing of the past? Anyhow, read on about Dennis' social media 'research' about the dating scene in West Palm Beach which was published in January:

Here is an article in Palm Beach County's paper of record, The Palm Beach Post:
      For those looking to travel and find love, West Palm Beach may not be the place to go. [emphasis added]
     The Palm Beach County city was named the fifth least sexy city in the United States, according to a survey by travel dating site MissTravel.com that was published by college news site Coed.
Of course, this "news" is complete nonsense—note the credible sources in the excerpt above. This 'data' is called data aggregation which can be summed up this way: Garbage In Garbage Out (GIGO). The City of Lake Worth was subjected to this silliness earlier in the year (remember Neighborhood Scout?). Here is another excerpt from the 'news' at the Post:
[I]t [West Palm Beach] was not seen favorably on lists ranking best performing metro areas and places to raise a family, which listed it near the bottom. [emphasis added]
     Read more at Coed.
Oh, by the way, do you know who the Post uses to print their newspapers? The Sun Sentinel in Broward County. Don't you think West Palm Beach would be a better community today if all those jobs had stayed in PBC instead of being farmed out to Broward County?