Quotes About Data

Every day I absorb countless data bits through emails, tweets, and articles, process the data, and transmit back new bits through more emails, tweets, and articles. I don't really know where I fit into the great scheme of things, or how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers. I don't have time to find out, because I am too busy answering all these emails.

Statistics courses are now part of the basic requirements, not just in physics and biology, but also in psychology, sociology, economics and political science

a dashboard for your body' (New York Times, 4 August 2011), and self-trackers are often described as 'body hacking' or as 'bio hackers'.

En Dios Confiamos; Todos Los Otros Traen Datos.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

Information is not knowledge.

Everybody talks about the internet being the ultimate repository of cooking knowledge. But it's not. It sucks.

Information is bad for knowledge.

As a physician, I understand how important it is to collect data on people so we can understand what's happening with them. I will be in the position to help enable that knowledge.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

A job is bound to be miserable if it doesn't involve measurement.

The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.

This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

But I no longer believe that trust is essential to organizational functioning or even to effective leadership. Why? Because the data suggest that trust is notable mostly by its absence. Nevertheless, organizations continue to roll along, as do their leaders who seemingly suffer few consequences for being untrustworthy.

systematic data on workplace bullying report widespread verbal abuse, shouting, berating others, and the general creation of a climate of intimidation.

Knowledge is power, so they say, and yet any counter will tell you that merely possessing data, in itself, is neither useful nor predictive.

You will feel a surge as the data floods your body. The surge may contain memory, heat, cold, longing, pain, or even joy. Although the data are alien, the memories dislodged will be your own…

The point of having a hypothesis is not to be right. It's about the data. Sometimes the data takes you in a direction you never imagined, and you have an interesting result.

Your statistical track record for decision-making is somewhat concerning.