Quotes About Data

Comparisons must be enforced within the scope of the eyespan, a fundamental point occasionally forgotten in practice.

We shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

You may hold all the data, info, and knowledge, but without consent, you gain nothing, even having the power, you are powerless. Everything depends on the consent

All of us, from children to scientists, have difficulty accepting data that go against our firmly held beliefs. We have to restructure too much of our intellectual framework to assimilate such surprises. It is far less costly, at least for a time, to keep the framework and deny the fact.

But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data

There's perhaps no barometer as credible as the employment provided data per month to gauge the economic health and well-being of the nation.

As Nassim Taleb, the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, writes, "Big data may mean more information, but it also means more false information." And even when the information is not false, the problem is "that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.

Only by being suspended aloft, by dangling my mind in the heavens and mingling my rare thought with the ethereal air, could I ever achieve strict scientific accuracy in my survey of the vast empyrean. Had I pursued my inquiries from down there on the ground, my data would be worthless. The earth, you see, pulls down the delicate essence of thought to its own gross level.

This means that the attributes used to describe an information resource are metadata about that resource.

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket, which demands mastery of the data that is involved working in the pocket, which is, 'I know everything about everything.'

America is way too quick to trade freedom for the illusion of security. Whether it's allowing the NSA to go way too far in what it intercepts of our personal data, to our government monitoring of everything domestically and spending way more than we should.

The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

We literally hand over our most private data, our DNA, but we're not just consenting for ourselves, we are consenting for our children, and our children's children. Maybe we don't live in a world where people are genetically discriminated against now, but who's to say in 100 years that we won't?

Your genome isn't really secret.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

Israel is the gold standard in data, they are absolutely the best place to mine data on this planet.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

The fact that data is always evolving is a good thing. It means that science is continuing, and we are always learning.

the lag time between collecting and acting on intelligence was slashed from sixteen hours to one minute. By

NSA lawyers even altered some otherwise plain definitions, so that doing this didn't constitute "collecting" data from American citizens, as that would be illegal: under the new terminology, the NSA was just storing the data; the collecting wouldn't happen until an analyst went to retrieve it from the files, and that would be done only with proper FISA Court approval. Under

If you use a cell phone - as I do - your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.