Quotes About Data

Gosset examined the data and determined that the counts of yeast cells could be modeled with a probability distribution known as the "Poisson distribution.

The problem is that we won't ever know that, and a lack of data never wins debates.

clearly used captured data and documents, and the handful of broken, scarred human prisoners who'd been recovered from them had been "interrogated" with a casual, dispassionate brutality that was horrifying.

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it's a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.

You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll continue to work on in the future.

It is too easy for the sheer mass of big data to overwhelm the sorts of healthy skepticism that is required to defeat deception. And now, with so much of our lives being tied up with giant electronic memory systems, it is almost trivial for terabytes of data to accumulate on almost any topic.

Looking at the number of Google hits on travel and entertainment websites from people who lived in PS 116's district would be data, but not evidence; and their evidentiary value would not improve even if there were millions of hits.

The integrity of any theory, Kuhn argued, lies in its falsifiability - that is, its openness to the possibility of repudiation in the light of more evidence, fresh insights or a more creative interpretation of data whose significance was not previously understood.

Statistics are just a way for the mathematician to evangelize his faith.

Reefs, [Charlie Vernon] points out, are nature's archives and historians. They are complex data banks that record evidence of environmental changes from millions of years ago up to the present.

It appeared that OP-20-G analysts were nourishing King's anxieties by sending him cherry-picked data that could be interpreted as pointing to such attacks. The men who had King's ear were unduly alarmist, and their impulsive theories might incite the fleet to chase its own tail.

Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce haemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world.

It all depends on how the team on the other side thinks. If they know what they're doing, there will be so many cutouts between you and them that you won't have the slightest chance of tracing your way to the truth. Not by following up sightings and throwing them into a computer. They will keep feeding you the information they want you to process. What is the only source of data about the UFO phenomenon? It is the UFOs themselves!

NIDS also attempted to acquire real time spectra of the mysterious flying lights. We deployed an extremely efficient, custom made, portable spectrometer on scores of occasions in order to capture spectrographic data and came up empty-handed on this front as well.

there is no known experiment, for example, that will distinguish between the simple ET hypothesis and the interdimensional hypothesis without more robust data.

Sam Lessin, project manager at Facebook, suggests, "We as a species in the last few decades have gotten three new superpowers. . . . We can literally remember anything, we can talk to anyone on earth instantly for free, and we can process huge amounts of data.

Fishing—precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge." "I know what fishing is." I took a sip of

Reports of missing persons have increased sixfold in the last twenty-five years, from roughly 150,000 in 1980 to 900,000 this year . . . More than 2,000 a day.

As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg said in 2017, "Optimists tend to be successful, and pessimists tend to be right. . . . If you think that something's going to be terrible and it's going to fail, then you're going to look for the data points that prove you right. And you'll find them. That's what pessimists do. . . . But if you think that something is possible, then you're going to try to find a way to make it work.

Soon we were downloading ourselves into laptops, phones or pads, freer than we had hoped, floating centrifugally across the Internet to swim alongside forgotten selfies, spam emails and porn

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.