Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image
Data is gathered all the time. Just take your mobile phone. Geo-location data collected by your (mobile phone service) provider is not… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
I've always been really interested in fashion, culture and visual arts in general: when I was growing up my parents half-expected me… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be… — Esther Duflo Copy Share Image
The boom is called good business, prosperity, and upswing. Its unavoidable aftermath, the readjustment of conditions to the real data of the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Qualitative versus quantitative metrics Qualitative metrics are unstructured, anecdotal, revealing, and hard to aggregate; quantitative metrics involve numbers and statistics, and provide… — Alistair Croll Copy Share Image
Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
At Deloitte, our programs for veterans are bringing new approaches to the table. For instance, we're helping veterans' organizations use data analytics… — Cathy Engelbert Copy Share Image
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have scientifically validated data, but once two people have found each other and found interest in each other, my hypothesis… — Ruth Westheimer Copy Share Image
Teachers can use technology-based assessments to inform their instruction. These assessments can quickly produce data and surface patterns that help teachers identify… — Sal Khan Copy Share Image
Does Facebook act as though I own my online life, or as though it does? Concretely: Can I control what data it… — Eric S. Raymond Copy Share Image
When I moved into management, it was all about managing people and keeping them motivated - I didn't use sales metrics to… — Jim McDonough Copy Share Image
For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much… — Natalie Jeremijenko Copy Share Image
Data do not indicate that mandatory minimum sentences keep our communities safer. Instead, mandatory minimums are disproportionately harming people and communities of… — Ralph Northam Copy Share Image
The rate of change and innovation occurring across the entire spectrum of society demands that a company like XL utilize the highest… — Mike McGavick Copy Share Image
The success, or failure, of a CEO to implement AI throughout the organization will depend on them hiring a leader to build… — Andrew Ng Copy Share Image
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Amid credible national security concerns related to Huawei, ZTE, and other 5G firms, we must take concrete steps to protect the privacy… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
“start with the most important questions and imagine the metrics that will answer them. Remember that any single metric can mislead; you… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Global warming alarmists invariably try to make their case by resorting to rhetoric, dogma, opinion, and emotion. The closest thing to scientific… — Walter Cunningham Copy Share Image
It might be the first time - certainly the first time in my lifetime that a major policy address by a Republican… — Avik Roy Copy Share Image
Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence… — James G. Stavridis Copy Share Image
Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I can actually build my equipment at the back end of the telescope such that it takes the data from all of… — Jill Tarter Copy Share Image
The problem for most self-starting leaders who do not have a mentor begins when they measure the results and find themselves fully… — Clay Clark Copy Share Image
Statistics are somewhat like old medical journals, or like revolvers in newly opened mining districts. Most men rarely use them, and find… — John Shaw Billings Copy Share Image
Corporations like Google, Facebook, Amazon, all of these large companies, are making tens or hundreds of billions of dollars off of monetising… — Brittany Kaiser Copy Share Image
My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected… — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is… — Brian Kernighan Copy Share Image
So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket,… — Steve Young Copy Share Image
