"Data scientist is just a sexed up word…" — Nate Silver
"Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician."
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75 Quotes by Nate Silver
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I don't play fantasy baseball anymore now because it's too much work, and I feel like I have to hold…
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I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's…
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Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge: the serenity to accept the things we cannot…
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Shakespeare's plays often turn on the idea of fate, as much drama does. What makes them so tragic is the…
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The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
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We need to stop, and admit it: we have a prediction problem. We love to predict things—and we aren’t very…
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One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that…
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Economy is not baseball, where the game is always played by the same rules.
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Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and…
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We speak for them. We imbue them with meaning.
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If the state polls are right, then Mr. Obama will win the Electoral College. If you can't acknowledge that after…
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The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.
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More Data Quotes
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The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in…
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
— Charles Babbage
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If we look at American history, between 1942 and 1947, the data that was collected by the Census Bureau was…
— Michele Bachmann
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Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from…
— Roseanne Barr
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I like facts and data because they help me think clearly, beyond the cultural messages that I ingest unwittingly, and…
— Roseanne Barr
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
— David Boies
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you…
— Edward de Bono
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
— Thomas Carlyle
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There has been a substitution of ideology for fact and scientific and engineering data in this administration.
— Vinton Cerf
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Merely presenting a driver's license or other document based on a birth certificate is not enough for an accurate verification.…
— Bob Dole
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The great uncertainty of all data in war is because all action, to a certain extent, planned in a mere…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.
— Unknown Author
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