Data Quotes
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Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it.
Eben Moglen -
We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.
Reed Hundt
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The data shows quite clearly that it's the greenhouse gas trends that are responsible for the majority of the trends.
Gavin Schmidt -
When you read findings like the one above, and see that Jamal doesn’t get the job, it’s easy to shake your head at the few racist hiring managers who’ve tilted the odds against him. But the data we see in this chapter shows racism isn’t a problem of outliers. It is pervasive.
Christian Rudder -
This flight was an engineer's dream. We are collecting so much data. We are looking at several different types of sensors. We are doing things we never imagined we would be able to do.
Charles Camarda -
Don't measure anything unless the data helps you make a better decision or change your actions. If you're not prepared to change your diet or your workouts, don't get on the scale.
Seth Godin -
The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!
George Raveling -
I related to the whole hippie, acid-test confluence of the early Internet. The idea that we should be open and interoperate with our data resonated with me.
Stewart Butterfield
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This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.
Hasso Plattner -
There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.
John Tukey -
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
If someone does a study which, for statistical reasons, I think is hopelessly underpowered or nonidentified, my best and most useful advice will not be tips on how to calculate p-values better, or how to construct an explanation for some particular data pattern. Rather, my advice will be to start over, to reconsider what you think you already know, maybe to question some prominent work in your subfield, and quite possibly to think a lot harder about measurement, and about the relation of your data to your underlying constructs of interest.
Andrew Gelman -
In the future, I think movies are going to be more of data sets that viewers have a hand in controlling - where the narrative originates and what happens to the content.
Ryan Trecartin -
We have so much data on the web, almost all of it available for free, that we dive into the the data ocean hoping that magically awesome things will follow. They never do.
Avinash Kaushik
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It might be the first time - certainly the first time in my lifetime that a major policy address by a Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump so heavily relied on data and studies from a labor-union-backed think tank.
Avik Roy -
You can remain friends, even without EU membership. The Prüm Convention, according to which data for combatting crime is exchanged, is a good example of international cooperation.
Geert Wilders -
If I see something that seems out of sync with what's already known, the first thing I do is try to find out what's wrong with the data. Once you've done that, and it still seems wrong, that's when things get interesting. It means you've found something new to understand.
Heidi Hammel -
If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.
Thomas Carlyle -
You cannot write well without data.
George V. Higgins -
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
John Poindexter
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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
King George V -
One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
Vinod Khosla -
All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
Norwood Russell Hanson -
But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data.
Eleanor Duckworth