Data Quotes
It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
Chemistry is necessarily an experimental science: its conclusions are drawn from data, and its principles supported by evidence from facts.
The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.
It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.
Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.
While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.
Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.
Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.
Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.
Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.
We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.
Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
Oracle, for example, has even hired people to dumpster dive for information about its competitor, Microsoft. It's not even illegal, because trash isn't covered by data secrecy laws.
Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.
We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.
Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.
Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization.
I could make a film in front of a wall if I knew how to find the data of man's true humanity and how to express it.
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.
Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.
