Quotes About Data

Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.

Legislators need to support privacy to establish consumer confidence.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust.

In one of history's great ironies, scientists today know vastly more than their colleagues a century ago, and possess vastly more data-crunching power, but they are much less confident in the prospects for perfect predictability.

See Section 5.6.1.4 of the PMBOK® Guide. For adaptive life cycle software projects, work performance data includes velocity, which is used to help establish a realistic scope of work for subsequent iterations.

The formula has been wiped completely from servers, backups, everywhere.

Border to border, from sea to shining sea, police cars and other government vehicles had for some time been equipped with 360-degree license-plate-scanning systems that recorded the numbers of the vehicles around them, whether parked or in motion, transmitting them 24/7 to regional archives, which in turn shared the information with the National Security Agency's vast intelligence troves in its million-square-foot Utah Data Center.

Every vehicle with a GPS is tracked by satellite, and the history of its travels is archived in the million-square-foot Utah Data Center of the National Security Agency, in its ever-growing cloud. The NSA is a jealous guardian of the knowledge that it has acquired, and police agencies do not have routine access to it.

THE DEVIL IS IN THE DIGITAL DATA.

We are drowning in information.

The economies of the future are information.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

People are literally tracking everything. People are becoming more empowered and knowing what's going into their body.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

Secularization is not a zero-sum game necessitating the demise of supernaturalism. Nor does the new spirituality reject science. What it rejects is scientism in which the methodology and data of natural science alone are allowed to contribute to our understanding of the world and the human condition in it. The new spirituality also calls on natural science itself as a witness against the inadequacies of a purely secularized worldview.

Advanced research along these lines has established that in each and every minute an immensely astronomical number of information bits do enter through our whole-body receptors. Additionally, during

History alone – the sum of empirically discoverable data – held the key to the mystery of why what happened happened as it did and not otherwise; and only history, consequently, could throw light on the fundamental ethical problems which obsessed him as they did every Russian thinker in the nineteenth century.

If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.

Using whatever data he could find, Callendar claimed that there had already been a 10% increase in atmospheric CO2 and that an observable, anthropogenic warming had already begun. What became known as the "Callendar Effect" was the claim that the combustion of fossil fuels would lead to increases in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, which would warm the earth.

The Library of Congress reports that the Army Office of the Surgeon General for Medical Statistics "does not have figures on single or multiple amputees." Either the government doesn't think them important, or, in the words of a researcher for one of the national television networks, "the military itself, while sure of how many tons of bombs it has dropped, is unsure of how many legs and arms its men have lost.

Caches of data are being recovered all the time. Why, just the other day, I heard that we now had complete texts for all three of Shakespire's plays!

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