Quotes About Data

In any case, perhaps the quest for data to support our actions gets overemphasized. After all, our emotions distinguish us. Art and poetry and music are from and to the human heart, as is, for many, our relationship with the land.' ~ Randy Morgenson

An AGGREGATE is a cluster of associated objects that we treat as a unit for the purpose of data changes.

Yes, workers can access localStorage and make XMLHttpRequests.

If the two values have different types, try to convert them into the same type and then compare them

I'm going to be in technology for a long time.

Vanity metrics wreak havoc because they prey on a weakness of the human mind.

Accessibility also refers to widespread access to the reports.

auditable," is so essential. We must ensure that the data is credible to employees.

those building reports must make sure the mechanisms that generate the reports are not too complex. Whenever possible, reports should be drawn directly from the master data, rather than from an intermediate system, which reduces opportunities for error.

David faced the difficult challenge of deciding whether to pivot or persevere. This is one of the hardest decisions entrepreneurs face. The goal of creating learning milestones is not to make the decision easy; it is to make sure that there is relevant data in the room when it comes time to decide.

There is an antidote to this misuse of data. First, make the reports as simple as possible so that everyone understands them. Remember the saying "Metrics are people, too." The easiest way to make reports comprehensible is to use tangible, concrete units. What is a website hit? Nobody is really sure, but everyone knows what a person visiting the website is: one can practically picture those people sitting at their computers.

Those who have sat in a meeting debating the units of measurement in a report will recognize this problem.

Departments too often spend their energy learning how to use data to get what they want rather than as genuine feedback to guide their future actions.

cohort analysis,

first, use a minimum viable product to establish real data on where the company is right now. Without a clear-eyed picture of your current status—no matter how far from the goal you may be—you cannot begin to track your progress.

CSV (fields separated by commas, double quotes used to escape commas, no continuation lines) is rarely found under Unix.

Use # as an introducer for comments. It is good to have a way to embed annotations and comments in data files. It's best if they're actually part of the file structure, and so will be preserved by tools that know its format. For comments that are not preserved during parsing, # is the conventional start character.

When you put together open medicine, open science, open access, open source, and open data—Open5—all sorts of new channels of research activity become available, and existing ones become exponentially more powerful.

Eventually, each individual will not only own their data, but it will be secured in a personal cloud or system, with the owner granting rights for others to access. Now that's a flip.

Nick Dawson, a leader of the Society of Participatory Medicine, uses Evernote as his electronic medical record, pulling in data from sensors and sharing with providers or family members.64

Indeed, the data might even preempt the need for a "visit," and when they do prove necessary, they will no longer be visits or appointments but informative, data-driven discussions. There

The promise of artificial intelligence in medicine is to provide composite, panoramic views of individuals' medical data; to improve decision making; to avoid errors such as misdiagnosis and unnecessary procedures; to help in the ordering and interpretation of appropriate tests; and to recommend treatment.

there is the chance that smartphones will democratize medicine. That will ultimately be achieved when each individual has unfettered, direct access to all of their own health data and information. Or captured by the popular mantra "nothing about me, without me.

With all the drive to cost transparency, there is not only little emphasis to make quality-of-care data available, but also it is extremely hard to come by. That's why the call of Guest and Quincy from Consumer Reports that "consumers should have better information about hospital and physician performance than they can glean from user reviews on Yelp, Zagat's, Angie's List, or other such sources" is such a tall order.