Quotes About Data

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

In a study of great white shark behavior by George Burgess and Matthew Callahan using data from the International Shark Attack File, no other humans were within ten feet of the victim in 85 percent of the attacks.

Josip considers this a very good sign. Winston may be abandoning his habit of confusing data for wisdom.

They become overly fixated on wringing insights out of data that just aren't there, or setting up entirely new information systems, rather than focusing on the information at their disposal and what it really suggests about strategic priorities.

The fundamental problem in the U.S. health care system is that the structure of health care delivery is broken. This is what all the data about rising costs and alarming quality are telling us. And the structure of health care delivery is broken because competition is broken. All of the well-intended reform movements have failed because they did not address the underlying nature of competition.

Putting together all the best available studies with the longest follow-up, that can be narrowed down even further to a BMI of 20–22.

The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day.

When you start a session in R, the variables you create are in the global environment .GlobalEnv

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.

Further, the size of the sample you take and the length of time over which you measure are essential elements of making a prediction. And of course, you have to be using valid data. So it's important to balance the statistics and the context.

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

Many of today's practising theorists seem to be unconcerned that their hypotheses should eventually confront objective, real-world observations.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with percepts. Memory, in this flawed model, is simply rewinding the tape and playing it back in the theater of the mind. This is not at all what happens. The perceptual system, and the brain that analyzes its data, are deeply influenced by the beliefs it already holds. As a consequence, much of what passes before our eyes may be invisible to a brain focused on something else.

Keep reports out of production Reports can, and should, be served elsewhere. Don't jeopardize

I guess that for a while it was justified because data was not so easy to access, so the whole academic world has developed without data in a sense.

Our job is to systematically sift price data to find trends and act on them and not let the latest news flashes sway our market opinions.46

The information he did not get was formal information. The data. The details. The options. The analysis. He didn't do PowerPoint. For anything that smacked of a classroom or of being lectured to—"professor" was one of his bad words, and he was proud of never going to class, never buying a textbook, never taking a note—he got up and left the room.

As it happened, Conway meant to say "alternative information," which at least would imply there might be additional data.

The society in which I live disgusts me; advertising sickens me; computers make me puke. My entire work as a computer expert consists of adding to the data, the cross-referencing, the criteria of rational decision-making. It has no meaning.

South Africa has the second highest rate of serial homicides, the United States of America having the highest. Unconfirmed reports indicate that there have been fifteen serial killers active in Russia in the past five years.

The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products

the best data scientists tend to be "hard scientists," particularly physicists, rather than computer science majors.