Data Quotes
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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 -
I think what bothers me so much of the time, is they take the data and theory and distort it. They must know they're distorting.
Eugenie Scott
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Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is now the oxygen of our Internet world.
Harper Reed -
I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.
Cathy O'Neil -
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You find yourself insensibly twisting them round to fit your theories.
Arthur Conan Doyle -
All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
Norwood Russell Hanson -
I don't use scientific data as a foundation for believing in God - I use it as an enrichment of my knowledge of God.
George Coyne -
The public trusts big data way too much.
Cathy O'Neil
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One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
Vinod Khosla -
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data.
Paul Dirac -
The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their communications outreach efforts to the voters’ changing media habits.
Neil Newhouse -
The NSA buys data from private companies, so the private companies are the source of all this stuff.
Cathy O'Neil -
Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.
Heidi Hammel -
Emotion AI uses massive amounts of data. In fact, Affectiva has built the world's largest emotion data repository.
Rana el Kaliouby
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It's always the balance between the individual's subjective experience and the social structural condition. As individuals we have access to more than we've ever had before. Giving up our data seems a small price to pay, especially if, as you say, we don't feel we have anything to hide.
Astra Taylor -
As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.
Evgeny Morozov -
Data is not useful until it becomes information.
Seth Godin -
I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself and check how long I slept. I do that because knowing that data seems better than not knowing it.
Harper Reed -
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Thomas Carlyle -
The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
Terence McKenna