Quotes about data
data weirdness regularity
Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with Brian Kernighan
data what-matters mosaics
Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them. Arthur Koestler
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We've been hit by some upside surprises, but a lot of the recent data has been back to questioning the strength of the European recovery. We could easily see the market rallying a bit.
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We have quantitative data on several species and each example shows that a species can make significant progress. But that progress is measured in decades. All of the species (in the report) are still on the list and are likely to remain on the list for many decades to come.
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We have programs... with SAP to take market share from Oracle as the application and database platform in the largest enterprise. Steve Ballmer
data economic helped seen
We've seen better economic data out of the U.K. and that has helped the pound.
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The fact is we have very few facts. The purpose of the Internet Policy Institute is to gather the kind of data that's going to be essential to develop the Internet.
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The fact is that over the last 10 or 20 years our privacy has been at risk by the vast amounts of data that society is putting in third-party hands. That's how modern society has been architected.
data determine fever investors
There is a lot of froth and fever surrounding the debuts of new stocks. But that is not the data on which investors should determine their long-run strategies.
data bricks clay
Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. Arthur Conan Doyle
data errors finding-yourself
Still, it is an error to argue in front of your data. You can find yourself insensibly twisting them round to suit your theories.
data reason dangerous
How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data.
data information internet
I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it. Austan Goolsbee
data world bills
Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger. Arundhati Roy
data people imagine
Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people? Ariel Garten
data doe littles
The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it. Daniel Gilbert
data identity biometrics
Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification. Biometric verification of identity must be made and then a data base of those persons who have legal status must be checked. Bob Dole
data soul stories
Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
data facts judgment
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping Dee Hock
data used connected
Everybody is connected to everybody else, all data that can be shared will be shared: get used to it. Eben Moglen
data inquiring scientist
A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified. Edwin Powell Hubble
data married born
Data is a lot like humans: It is born. Matures. Gets married to other data, divorced. Gets old. One thing that it doesn't do is die. It has to be killed. Arthur Miller
data views turns
Extreme views are never just; something always turns up which disturbs the calculations formed upon their data. Benjamin Disraeli
data doctors decision
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best. Ben Goldacre
data fabric world
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
data anecdotes
The plural of anecdotes is not data
data decision tools
We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions. Dan Ariely
data information patient
Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data. Elizabeth Holmes
data directly front longer scary
Data transmission is no longer something scary you don't want in your backyard. Now you want it directly in front of your house. Douglas Coupland
data mastering rhetorical
I don't want to become a rhetorical speaker. My effectiveness is mastering all of the data and being able to respond. Norman Finkelstein
data early open related
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
data rule
We still have too little data to rule this out.
data economic good indicator key national number ourselves rest seeing setting
This national manufacturing number will be a key to the market. The economic data that we are going to be seeing now will be a good indicator of what we could be setting ourselves up for the rest of the year.