Quotes About Data

there are four separate and distinct components to consider in the DW/BI environment: operational source systems, ETL system, data presentation area, and business intelligence applications.

This asset is almost always used for two purposes: operational record keeping and analytical decision making. Simply speaking, the operational systems are where you put the data in, and the DW/BI system

Data warehouse support people should be physically located in the business user departments, and while on assignment, should spend all their waking hours devoted to the business content of the departments they serve. Such a relationship engenders trust and credibility with the business users, which ultimately is the "gold coin" for IT. Mistake

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

Em Deus, nós confiamos; todos os outros devem trazer dados".33

Regardless, in this world, this world where everything was linked, where data ruled all, where cryptographic codes had replaced physical locks on the world's wealth, on its infrastructure, on its weapons… In this world a being able to process information more rapidly than humans was the ultimate threat.

Well, that was a huge step. We had an instruction set. We could move data around. We could do conditionals. We could do most of the things a simple chip can do. We had the visual cortex for our display. The auditory cortex for our speakers. The motor cortex for our input. On top of that, we could write any damn software we wanted.

Even a light-colored shirt or blouse or clown makeup can cause a reflection on the monitor, obscuring some of the data displayed.

When data does not fit comfortably into a likely chain of events, I reassemble the data into a worst-case scenario. It is my way of establishing the parameters of possibility.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

I have a watch with all the calories I burn so I can track everything I do.

I am accepting my share of responsibility in what happens with Cambridge Analytica. I think that Facebook should also accept some share of responsibility as to what happened.

I am concerned in general about carbon emissions and machine learning.

We have to examine very carefully any privacy-reducing technology.

Often when I'm talking about something, we could be talking about cats, and then I'll get adverts on my phone about cat food.

Anytime someone builds a little application that runs on a cell phone, there's something that goes on the server.

Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

The census should not be political.

I've spent 10 years checking my analytics on my end to see what people were talking about and what they like.

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Who wants to get really granular with sabermetrics when you're going to see a two-and-a-half-hour Brad Pitt movie? You don't go to the cinema for a maths lesson.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

Democrats did not lose control of the Senate because African Americans did not vote. Actually, as supported by preliminary exit poll data, the complete opposite is the case. African Americans increased as a proportion of the electorate in 2014 over 2010.