My bias:

I fundamentally don’t care about finding ways to quantify qualitative data. I’m much more interested in finding ways to qualify quantitative data.

I have a Ph.D. and a master’s degree, and I’m a college vice president, and I’m obliged to work with and think in terms of numbers every day. But the data that drive me in our current culture of the “data-driven” imperative are humanistic, philosophical, spiritual, and meaning-based. Enough with numbers and the obsession with them. What’s important is the human stories and existential realities these numbers abstractly represent.