Data Quotes · Page 45

The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action.

— Peter Drucker

Despite the value of open data, most labs make no systematic effort to share data with other scientists.

— Michael Nielsen

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal…

— Mike Pence

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and…

— Al Franken

“Our values determine the metrics by which we measure ourselves and everyone else.”

— Mark Manson

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from…

— Michael Jackson

“Performance metrics are number in context, results related to the strategic goals of the business.”

— Pearl Zhu

How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

— Bill Gates

Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying 'What's under the hood' will increasingly refer to…

— Brian Krzanich

To create an open protocol which helps coordinate resources towards a common goal, the resources need to be known at some level…

— Fred Ehrsam

The real power of mass data collection lies in the hand-tailored algorithms capable of sifting, sorting, and identifying patterns within the data…

— Chelsea Manning

Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are…

— Jose Ferreira

To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is…

— Anonymous

We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that…

— Orlando Rodriguez

People will come to your site because you have good compelling content. You need to hit it from all angles: blog posts,…

— Chris Bennett

Good science is all about following the data as it shows up and letting yourself be proven wrong, and letting everything change…

— Rebecca Skloot

When dealing with data, scientists have often struggled to account for the risks and harms using it might inflict. One primary concern…

— Kate Crawford

As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This…

— Scott Harshbarger

[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a…

— Carl Sagan

While we have put an utmost emphasis on Gross Domestic Products (GDP) as a barometer for the overall economy until now, we…

— Jose Angel Gurria

Because we're always more woundable when caught at exactly the time where we're in the mood for that particular product or service…

— Martin Lindstrom

Part of the narrative which is sort of supported by the data is that Trump voters are the least educated, and they're…

— Marc Lamont Hill

If persons in the untreated...group die at any time in the study interval, they are reported...In the treated group, however, deaths which…

— Hardin B. Jones

In the first study, Grant and his colleagues analyzed data from one of the five biggest pizza chains in the United States.…

— Susan Cain

The challenge is for the graphic designer to turn data into information and information into messages of meaning.

— Katherine McCoy

Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human…

— Lewis Mumford

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

— Ernest Rutherford

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

— Fred Wilson

For me, all of the data that is contained in your cell memory, and in your energetic field, is able to be…

— Caroline Myss

“The algorithms know you better than you know yourself,” says Xavier Amatriain, a former data scientist at Netflix.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.

— Aaron Levenstein

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

— James Mark Baldwin

When information overload occurs, pattern recognition is how to determine truth.

— Marshall McLuhan

I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.

— Sean Astin

We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.

— William James

“Since it is all based on statistics, the size of the company’s database is the key to making accurate predictions”

— Yuval Noah Harari

In the age of information, ignorance is a choice. Question everything. Don't believe everything you hear. Come to your own conclusions.

— Mark Patterson

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

— Nate Silver

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

— Robert Rodriguez

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

— Larry Hite