Data Quotes

Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data.

The religion of Big Data sets itself the goal of fulfilling man's unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.

90% of the world's data was created in the last two years

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him enter regional distribution codes in data field 97 to facilitate regression analysis on the back end.

The plural of anecdotes is not data

If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.

Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

Using TrackMan is very important in the development of your golf game because it gives you such good data on what your golf swing is doing and where it needs to go.

...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

The world is one big data problem.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

Learn to love the data and, for heaven's sake, write well.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

The internet wasn't created for mockery, it was supposed to help researchers at different universities share data sets. It was!

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

Every second of every day, our senses bring in way too much data than we can possibly process in our brains.

[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.

There's a mountain of information about us. I mean there's so much. Anyway, I'm not an intelligence person. But I just look at it and it's a mountain of data.

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.

I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.

The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

I kind of have to be a master of cleaning, extracting and trusting my data before I do anything with it.

The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

Data is the next Intel Inside.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data".

Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

Theory without data is myth: data without theory is madness.

When writing gateway software of any kind, take pains to disturb the data stream as little as possible - and never throw away information unless the recipient forces you to!

To get anywhere, or even to live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.