Quotes About Data

I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.

We are losing privacy at an alarming rate - we have none left.

What you get is what you see, which is suspending kids doesn't lead to high attrition rate. That is what the data shows.

The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.

As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.

Machine learning is looking for patterns in data. If you start with racist data, you will end up with even more racist models. This is a real problem.

It's a huge competitive advantage to see in real time what's happening with your data.

In short, Now is Google's attempt at becoming the real time interface to our lives - moving well beyond the siloed confines of 'search' and into the far more ambitious world of 'experience.' As in - every experience one has could well be lit by data delivered through Google Now.

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Google doesn't really forget.

My Google existence is probably larger than a lot of people's.

Google indexes the world's information.

It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.

We're training Google Street View to recognize street numbers.

In reading celebrities, public figures, their lives are on Google! So, obviously, there's information about them.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

While massive datasets may feel very abstract, they are intricately linked to physical place and human culture. And places, like people, have their own individual character and grain.

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

As the internet of things grows, as we have sensors on everything: cars, fridges, TVs then data is going to become ubiquitous.

During the dot-com bubble, most people did not use a persuasive theory to gauge whether stock prices were too high, too low, or just right. Instead, as they watched stock prices go up, they invented explanations to rationalize what was happening. They talked about Moore's Law, smart kids, and Alan Greenspan. Data without theory.

Our inherited desire to explain what we see fuels two kinds of cognitive errors. First, we are too easily seduced by patterns and by the theories that explain them. Second, we latch onto data that support our theories and discount contradicting evidence. We believe stories simply because they are consistent with the patterns we observe and, once we have a story, we are reluctant to let it go.

Ronald Coase cynically observed that, "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.