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Data Quotes by Anonymous

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Anonymous points out that data can reveal a deeper picture beyond ordinary facts. He notes that people often act on little or no data, even when hard data is available. He warns against trusting single metrics like GDP without looking at the full set of information.

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42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

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“we put too much faith in G.D.P. as a metric.”

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“while theories are nice, data is better.”

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“transporting data and deploying”

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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

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“Information is the currency of the Internet.”

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What gets measured (and clearly defined) does get done.

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“You can’t samba in a data stream,”

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If we have data, lets look at data. If all we have are opinions, lets go with mine.

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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

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“Once dismissed as “body shops”, India’s IT-outsourcing firms are now leaders in big data.”

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“Information is no longer a scarce commodity. But attention is.”

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In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

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“Unfortunately, while people were drowning in data, knowledge was nowhere”

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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

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Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this…

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I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the…

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Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels,…

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I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good…

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I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to…

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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…

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“Our data-management services can be the beginning of an effective planning and implementation of a strong data-management system for your business.

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My research, even before 1972, moved in directions beyond those cited for the Nobel Memorial Prize. Most of it, in one way…

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When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the…

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In a world pulsating with so much information, the only information that you need is the stuff that will lead you straight…

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PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our…

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The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were…

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“Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing…

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I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an…

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“For example, we can gauge the outside temperature combining the user’s current location with online weather information, and then use this data…

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The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the…

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My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup,…

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Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes…

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“Today we aren’t quite to the place that H. G. Wells predicted years ago, but society is getting closer out of necessity.…

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Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

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Information is the igredient for a new life.

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“One death is a tragedy, and a million is a statistic,”

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Above all else show the data.

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Statistics are there to be broken.

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