Bigs Quote by Martin Lindstrom

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

— Alexander Nix

Big data is great when you want to verify and quantify small data - as big data is all about seeking a correlation -…

— Martin Lindstrom

Biases and blind spots exist in big data as much as they do in individual perceptions and experiences. Yet there is a problematic belief…

— Kate Crawford

“And most big data programs do a poor job of identifying which correlations are more or less likely to be spurious. The use of…

— Alec J. Ross

I'm very familiar with how people can confuse correlation with causation.

— Tim Ferriss

We should be cautious about embracing data before it is published in the academic press, and must always avoid treating correlation as causation.

— George Monbiot

“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

By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems…

— Clayton M. Christensen

When we see a strong correlation, and the matter at-hand is something with major health or safety or security implications, then we are behooved…

— David Brin

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

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Small causes can often have large effects. Smaller causes can have even bigger effects, and the very biggest effects frequently have no cause at…

— Albert Vigoleis Thelen

The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious…

— Evgeny Morozov