Big-data Quote by Tom Boellstorff

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

— danah boyd

“where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Data alone has no value—it’s just masses of numbers or words.”

— Steven J. Bowen

“Data for data’s sake, or the mindless gathering of big data, without any conceptual framework for organizing and understanding it, may actually be bad…

— Geoffrey West

“Its not the big data that creates value, its the way we consume it.”

— Gohar F. Khan

“The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Data doesn’t matter. Only opinions and stories formed from the data matters and gets shared and absorbed.”

— Jarod Kintz

“A small sample, we repeat, is rarely the big scientific problem. Interpretation is.”

— Stephen Thomas Ziliak

“Big Data: by itself doesn't yield insights...information doesn't serve us...without knowing why....unless something transformative is brought to these data sets (to create) understanding Gathering…

— Beau Lotto

“Big Data does not eliminate the need for all the other ways humans have developed over the millennia to understand the world. They complement…

— Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

“Data is messy, and inference is hard.”

— Jordan Ellenberg

We have this huge, massive information, but what is it that matters? What doesn't matter? What makes sense, what doesn't make sense? You have…

— Noam Chomsky