Quote by Jordan Ellenberg Download Open image ““Data is messy, and inference is hard.”” — Jordan Ellenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“it’s pretty easy to frame an argument convincingly by being selective in the data presented.” — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.” — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.” — Tom Boellstorff Copy Share Image
The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
“Everything is data! And with all this new data, we can finally see through people’s lies.” — Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Copy Share Image
“I'm a scientist. It's not about sides or parties; I'm with whoever has the best data.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Knowing mathematics is like wearing a pair of X-ray specs that reveal hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of the world.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“If you decide what color jelly beans to eat based just on the papers that get published, you’re making the same mistake the army… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Risky strategies can be analyzed numerically; uncertain strategies, Ellsberg suggested, were beyond the bounds of formal mathematical analysis” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“if we now feel comfortable rejecting the conclusions of the Witztum study, what does that say about the reliability of our standard statistical tests?” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“His most famous paradox goes like this. I decide to walk to the ice cream store. Now certainly I can’t get to the ice… — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“scientists and statisticians have already been worrying about them for quite some time.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
“Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.” — Jordan Ellenberg Copy Share Image
