Quotes About Data

Experience is more basic than ultimate worldview presuppositions and, in fact, the evidence of experience provides data for evaluating rival worldviews or interpretations of some event.

Data that conflicts with beliefs is often ignored," the doctor said. "It has been a serious problem in every field, including in medicine, even among those who should know better.

in a manner befitting the ideals we want to exemplify to the rest of the world. We now have twenty years of data to examine; it is imperative we weigh the results against the unintended consequences. Just because we've always done it one way doesn't mean we will continue to do it that way. This briefing serves as much as an education for me as it does for all of us to study a decades-old program spanning what is now four administrations.

In another experiment in 1955, the CIA released the whooping cough virus over Tampa, Florida without telling anyone, so they could see how quickly it would spread; they got their data, and twelve innocent civilians died.

There is no questioning the foundational myths of the social justice warrior. If you merely wish to discuss the assumptions or the data, you're a wretched misogynist and anti-diversity. If you doubt their conclusions, you're part of the patriarchy. And if you refuse to kowtow to their demands, they unleash the mob on you.

In this same vein, tomorrow's unusual, unconventional, and unthinkable companies will be created from sensor technology, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, 5G networks, synthetic biology, genomics, 3D printing, and robotics.

survey (n) a series of questions that investigates the opinions or experiences of a group of people

According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.

It is the ultimate expressive medium, Lick later wrote—"the moldable, retentive, yet dynamic medium—the medium within which one can create and preserve the most complex and subtle patterns and through which [one] can make those patterns operate (as programs) upon other patterns (data).

Libraries of the Future is, in fact, one of the founding documents of what is now called digital library research, which includes (among other things) our efforts to manage information in that sprawling mass of data known as the World Wide Web.

The Aloha system, he learned, was an experimental, ARPA-funded network that transmitted computer data via radio waves, instead of via the telephone lines used in the Arpanet.

An operator watching his CRT display screen, giving commands to a computer via a keyboard and a handheld light gun, and sending data to other computers via a digital communications link:

Its population was around 3.5 million, Scotland's barely 850,000.

Figure 1: The incidence of banking crises Source: Own calculations, based on the reported numbers of major bank failures in OECD economies, from Reinhart and Rogoff (2010)

A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications.

Observations always involve theory.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

Anyone with a little computer experience knows that anything can be copied bit-by-bit with the right equipment.

Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.