Quotes About Data

When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.

Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.

People want to be in charge of health information. They want it available the same way online banking is available.

If I can really work in any sport, I wonder if the Golden Knights have an opening in their analytics department?

Uber survives only if people trust us. You have to trust us with your data. You have to trust us with your safety or the safety of your loved ones. And we have to earn that trust every day in the way that we operate.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order—creating myriad philosophies, mythologies, and religions to reassure us that there is indeed an order and structure to the unseen world.

Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures. Fear of being judged by an omniscient deity always helps inspire benevolent behavior.

Snooping data was a lot like having indiscriminate sex—protection or no protection, sooner or later you caught something.

A pattern is any distinctly organized sequence. Patterns occur everywhere in nature—the spiraling seeds of a sunflower, the hexagonal cells of a honeycomb, the circular ripples on a pond when a fish jumps, et cetera." "Okay. And codes?" "Codes are special," Langdon said, his tone rising. "Codes, by definition, must carry information. They must do more than simply form a pattern—codes must transmit data and convey meaning.

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Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures.

For the human brain," Edmond explained, "any answer is better than no answer. We feel enormous discomfort when faced with 'insufficient data,' and so our brains invent the data—offering us, at the very least, the illusion of order

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

Brawne looks at Johnny, realizing that she is seeing in infrared now as the heat-lamp light from distant furnaces of data suns bathes them both. He is still handsome. —

When you think about it, the cause-effect begins to resemble some mad logic-loop by the data artist Carolus or perhaps a print by Escher: the Shrike had come into existence because of the incantatory powers of my poem but the poem could not have existed without the threat/presence of the Shrike as muse. Perhaps I was a bit mad in those days. In

pero sobre todo se basaban en el descubrimiento del siglo XX de que, en el fondo, todo es información. Datos. Consciencia. Materia. Energía. Todo es información.

data science requires more than math skills: it also takes people who have a wide-ranging curiosity, and whose innovation is guided by their own experience—not just data.

What makes data more useful is the person curating it.5 Ideally, the person who curates information will zero in on what matters, prune away the rest, establish a context for what the data means, and do all that in a way that shows why it is vital—and so captures people's attention.

Only of late have the scientific data reached critical mass, confirming what our intuition and the texts told us: these deep changes are external signs of strikingly different brain function.

Such heuristics determine whether a flood of data offers up a "Eureka!" or we suffer from information overload. That decision (Got it! versus Too much information) emanates from a thin strip in the brain's prefrontal area, the dorsolateral circuits.

Os riscos inteligentes baseiam-se numa alargada e voraz recolha de dados confrontados com um sentido intuitivo; as decisões estúpidas são construídas de uma base demasiado restrita de dados. A reação franca daqueles em quem confiamos e respeitamos cria uma fonte de consciência própria que nos protege de dados de informação enviesados, ou de pontos de partida questionáveis.