Data driven? No, you're story driven, says German data scientist

Just when data seems to be approaching maturity as a touchstone in business, along comes a data scientist with doubts. Data is like the stone in stone soup, he says. It has not a single calorie of meaning.

"The beef is in data fiction," says Joerg Blumtritt, CEO of Munich-based Datarella and consultant to a long string of large European and American clie…