Quotes about data
data imagination needs
Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination. Jonathan Franzen
data world doe
Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world. Pete Townshend
data ugly fit
A theory with mathematical beauty is more likely to be correct than an ugly one that fits some experimental data. Paul Dirac
data marketing information
The future of marketing belongs to honest information, accurate data and clear claims based on truth. Patrick Dixon
data entering use
We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data. Erik Brynjolfsson
data information consumers
Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data. Eric Topol
data mail way
The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset. John Holdren
data looks might
I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is. Laurel Clark
data people important
As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge. Laurel Clark
data goal community
We're now going to develop the standards on transparency, data collection for police, but the whole goal is to fully integrate the police into the community because everybody has the same goals. John Kasich
data cities numbers
At the global level, there are a growing number of city-based bike-sharing programs that take advantage of mobile devices to reserve your bike, keep track of it, and collect data that helps to improve the service. Lisa Gansky
data worry programming
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. Linus Torvalds
data president unions
Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data. Linda Chavez
data decision driven
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven. Fred Wilson
data president covering
The President's science advisor, who is a former Harvard professor named Holdren, is involved in the email scandals and covering up the fact that data has been lost, the fact that contrary opinions to the global warming crowd has been squeezed out of scientific journals ... Now this is an international conspiracy. Jim Sensenbrenner
data keys decision
The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day. Emily Oster
data way agendas
Realize that agendas drive data, not the other way round Joel Salatin
data alzheimers one-day
You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide. Tan Le
data understanding brain
Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale. Tan Le
data problem
No observational problem will not be solved by more data. Vera Rubin
data doe scientist
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician. Robert Rodriguez
data world way
things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting. Vernon Lee
data
What we have is a data glut. Vernor Vinge
data facts principles
Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied. Thomas Paine
data government cry
Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. Thomas Sowell
data criticism want
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny. Tim Ferriss
data issues body
Modern statisticians are familiar with the notion that any finite body of data contains only a limited amount of information on any point under examination; that this limit is set by the nature of the data themselves, and cannot be increased by any amount of ingenuity expended in their statistical examination: that the statistician's task, in fact, is limited to the extraction of the whole of the available information on any particular issue. Ronald Fisher
data knows
Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data Steve Jobs
data periods rate
We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995. Robert Glaser
data gossip generalization
Data without generalization is just gossip. Robert M. Pirsig
data suffering tests
The TV scientist who mutters sadly, "The experiment is a failure; we have failed to achieve what we had hoped for," is suffering mainly from a bad script writer. An experiment is never a failure solely because it fails to achieve predicted results. An experiment is a failure only when it also fails adequately to test the hypothesis in question, when the data it produces don't prove anything one way or another. Robert M. Pirsig
data people planes
People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane. Steve Largent
data succeed helping
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed. Thomas Carlyle