Quotes About Data

intellectuals who reject eternal truths and experience through the ages for the social engineering by supposed experts and their administrative state—which claim to use data, science, and empiricism to analyze, manage, and control society.

In plain English, the immense investment of tax dollars in a vast government-run educational infrastructure is buying young people a poor education. The data demonstrate there is no overall correlation between the dramatic spending increases in public education during the last several decades and academic achievement.

Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it in my own image.122

although largely Canaanite according to currently available cultural data, Israel expressed a distinct sense of origins and deity and possessed largely distinct geographical holdings in the hill country by the end of the Iron I period.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics.

Statistics show that teen pregnancy drops off significantly after age 2

According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control

The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik.

The desire to commit suicide, however, has at its base a belief that life cannot or will not improve. Although that may be the case in some instances, it is not true in all instances. Death, however, rules out hope in all instances. We do not have any data indicating that people who are dead lead better lives.

I would defer to your expertise in shooting and killing things. You should defer to mine in data analysis.

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it.

That's mostly a metaphor. My uneaten client stat is high.

humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

As a SecUnit, a large part of my function was helping the company record everything my clients did and said so the company could data mine it and sell anything worthwhile. (They say good security comes at a price and the company takes that literally.)

But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don't tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there's nothing you can do about it.

Humans always think they've covered their tracks and deleted their data, but they're wrong a lot.

Maybe the schedules hadn't been updated; humans are so fucking unreliable when it comes to maintaining data.

My uneaten client stat is high.)