Quotes About Data

So all of it—local and archived data—went up with the lab building." Vann glanced over to me with an expression that I suspect meant these people were sloppy.

Isn't that the way science works? You present a hypothesis to your peers, you show them all your measurements and observations and data, and you ask them to make you a liar.

One does not need visions when one has data.

you will see this framework at work when ethnographers employ both quantitative (e.g., surveys) and qualitative data collection (LeCompte & Schensul, 1999) and when case study researchers use both quantitative and qualitative data (Luck, Jackson, & Usher, 2006; Yin, 2009).

Life is way too short to safely remove a USB.

Healthy science needs a combination of humility and hope: humility to accept the extent of our ignorance and hope that new discoveries will illuminate the current darkness. However, when we are at the edge of knowledge and data is not forthcoming, well-grounded speculation is the only strategy at our disposal. Without imagination science stagnates.

Humankind now produces in two days the same amount of data it took us from the dawn of civilisation until 2003 to generate.

Trying to analyze a situation without enough data was like looking at a photograph of a ball in flight and trying to gauge its direction. Is it going up, down, sideways? Is it about to collide with a baseball bat? Is it moving at all, or is something on the blind side holding it in place? A single frame didn't mean a thing. Patterns were based on data. With enough datapoints, you could predict just about anything.

Frightened people want action more than they want correct action. It's in the data.

Data. That's what matters. That's what tells us something. But people want to see pictures. Supernova in vivid color. Even though scientifically it's useless.

If you have a fear of flying, don't. The data are very clear: If you have to travel someplace, the safest way is by airplane.

Junk food, empty calories and carbs are the Big Data of the masses

when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food.

I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

A theory may be so rich in descriptive possibilities that it can be made to fit any data.

He had downloaded his content and uninserted his floppy;

The risk-averse are rarely emboldened by data.

Collecting data using improper methods can spoil any statistical analysis

but slots — and other "virtual" attributes — won't be reported as instance data.

everything is a "first class" object in Python —

Increasing the Reliability of Observational Methods To be useful, observational

quasi-experimental