Big Quote by Clayton M. Christensen

The evidence is truly overwhelming that disease is pluri-causal.

— E. Cheraskin

The big thing that's happened is, in the time since the Affordable Care Act has been going on, our medical science has been advancing.…

— Atul Gawande

Much of what I do in my job is think about whether relationships we see in data are causal, as opposed to just reflecting…

— Emily Oster

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

— Alexander Nix

“Allowing us to do many causal experiments is the fourth power of Big Data.”

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

Hitherto the principle of causality was universally accepted as an indispensable postulate of scientific research, but now we are told by some physicists that…

— Max Planck

“Storing information as a story, linked with causality, could help meet the biological need to efficiently store, retrieve, and reduce the dimensionality of information.”

— Rich Jolly

Where big data is all about seeking correlations - and thus to make incremental changes - small data is all about causations - seeking…

— Martin Lindstrom

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

— Wilfred Trotter

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

— Susan Sontag

“Big data is, in a nutshell, large amounts of data that can be gathered up and analyzed to determine whether any patterns emerge and…

— Daniel Covington

We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

— danah boyd