Quotes About Data

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.

Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

While statistics are interesting, they're all in the past.

Pidän ihmistä vaaleanpunaisena aistidatan kokoelmana.

Information is not knowledge.

I think there is a tendency in science to measure what is measurable and to decide that what you cannot measure must be uninteresting.

Storing information means increasing the complexity of the mechanism.

Accurate data on shark attacks on World War II servicemen may never be known since medical records did not note them. In fact, the navy was sufficiently concerned about loss of morale that it discouraged public mention of the menace.

Confirmation Bias, which had been demonstrated time and again in numerous experiments. Once we formed an opinion or took a position, be it in politics, the worthiness of a television show, or global warming, we tended to filter new data, seizing on anything that agreed with our position and dismissing or ignoring anything contrary, no matter how valid. We would cling to our positions, even in the face of what should be incontrovertible evidence against them.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it.

This is classic data mining. You draw a conclusion and then mine the data retrospectively to find support for it. You invariably do.

Knight wasn't lying," whispered Wexler. "You can type inside a Google search bar, and download files, but can't send anything else through cyberspace, including passwords.

Also, I'll want to scan your brain using the ultra-high-resolution MRI at our main facility. I need to confirm Kelvin's data as to the final positioning of your implants.

Our adversaries had found a way to wipe the professor's backups in the cloud, as well.

Do you know why you aren't charged to use social media platforms? Because you aren't the customer. You're the product." "Meaning what?" said Ashley. "Meaning these companies are selling you. Data on every aspect of your lives.

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of science. —Lord Kelvin (1824–1907),

Rule of Five There is a 93.75% chance that the median of a population is between the smallest and largest values in any random sample of five from that population.

you should start thinking about measurements as a multistep chain of thought. Inferences can be made from highly indirect observations.

Myth: When you have a lot of uncertainty, you need a lot of data to tell you something useful. Fact: If you have a lot of uncertainty now, you don't need much data to reduce uncertainty significantly. When you have a lot of certainty already, then you need a lot of data to reduce uncertainty significantly. In other words—if you know almost nothing, almost anything will tell you something.

Measurement: A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.

we need to treat measurement as observations that quantitatively reduce uncertainty.

Definition of Measurement Measurement: A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.

Anything you need to quantify can be measured in some way that is superior to not measuring it at all. —Gilb's Law