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Quotes About Data

The paradigm shift of the ImageNet thinking is that while a lot of people are paying attention to models, let's pay attention to data. Data will redefine how we think about models.
~ Fei-Fei Li
Automobiles and the automotive industry are increasingly driven by data and computing. The saying 'What's under the hood' will increasingly refer to computing, not horsepower.
~ Brian Krzanich
I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.
~ Shahid Khan
Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the 'last mile' of the network over which data flows into a person's home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.
~ Marsha Blackburn
Even though Cambridge Analytica has dissolved, the capabilities are still there, the platforms are still there, the people are still there. What happens when China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica? Like anything, the second, third, fourth time you do something, you start to refine and perfect it.
~ Christopher Wylie
Big data is going to make us all healthier.
~ Anne Wojcicki
The heart of science is measurement.
~ Erik Brynjolfsson
They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.
~ Rick Smolan
Personally, I find visualisations great for helping me understand the world and for sifting the huge amounts of information that deluge me every day.
~ David McCandless
Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version
~ George Orwell
The traveler must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalization. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping vague conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.
~ George Saunders
The E.U. has data systems that enable police and border guards to work together in real time to intercept wanted persons; and the European arrest warrant ensures their speedy return.
~ Keir Starmer
Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.
~ David McCandless
The Cingular-branded 2125 Smartphone is an example of how Windows Mobile 5.0 can create a flexible, powerful phone that helps mobile information workers access their most essential business data in a compact form factor.
~ Suzan DelBene
Realize you won't master data structures until you are working on a real-world problem and discover that a hash is the solution to your performance woes.
~ Robert Love
Most of my readers think I'm obsessed with time management, but they haven't seen the other - much more legitimate, much more extreme - obsession. I've recorded almost every workout I've done since age 18. Since 2004, I've been tracking everything from complete lipid panels, insulin, and hemoglobin A1c, to IGF-1 and free testosterone.
~ Tim Ferriss
Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.
~ Thomas R. Insel
TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file.
~ Jon Postel
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
~ Tim O'Reilly
The company started in the early 90s or late 80s. We were a behavioural science company. We didn't pivot into data analytics till 2012. So, all the data that we collected pre-2012, which was done by the British company SBL group, was collected through quantitive and qualitative research on the ground.
~ Alexander Nix
Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.
~ Bernard Ebbers
As our society tips toward one based on data, our collective decisions around how that data can be used will determine what kind of a culture we live in.
~ John Battelle
The purpose of the Filecoin currency is to create a fungible token that can be spent to hire the miner network to store files. The first and foremost use of the currency is precisely this: locking it up as a reward to miners who successfully store data on the network.
~ Juan Benet
With no universal measure for meaning to compare with the seemingly solid accounting for income, we fall into the data trap. Our larger culture, and our pesky parents, push us toward decisions that seem to score well but are blind to the most important elements of healthy careers and meaningful lives.
~ Scott Berkun