Quotes About Data

I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were really looking for; then they have to redo a lot of stuff. If after a day or so you force yourself to put together your tentative conclusions, then you'll have guidance for the rest of your research.

We know the point of the 2010 Census is to count us, one by one, to tally every last resident, but the massive project of course has more prying, if limited, interests.

Facebook knew in December 2015 that data had been harvested on Cambridge Analytica's behalf. It denied this until I came forward and produced the contract that SCL Elections, CA's parent company, signed with GSR, Dr. Aleksandr Kogan's company, for the work.

You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor.

People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.

Other surveys show the same shifts.

Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.

These are children talking in their own homes about anything and everything. Why is Amazon keeping these voice recordings?

Sometimes respecting people means making sure your systems are inclusive such as in the case of using AI for precision medicine, at times it means respecting people's privacy by not collecting any data, and it always means respecting the dignity of an individual.

Toda web deja un rastro en nuestro ordenador llamado cookies, pequeñas piezas de información que la web usa para identificarnos, y a las que nosotros le damos permiso para leer. Con esas galletitas, una web como Amazon o Infinity Shopping sabe qué páginas visitamos. Sabe si nos gustan las novelas de misterio o los fideos chinos. Y cuando navegamos por ella, nos ofrece tentadoras fotos de fideos chinos y de novelas de misterio recién salidas de la imprenta.

If I could sum up the message of this book in one pithy phrase, it would be that you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

you are smarter than your data. Data do not understand causes and effects; humans do.

Much of this data-centric history still haunts us today. We live in an era that presumes Big Data to be the solution to all our problems. Courses in "data science" are proliferating in our universities, and jobs for "data scientists" are lucrative in the companies that participate in the "data economy." But I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb.

I hope with this book to convince you that data are profoundly dumb. Data can tell you that the people who took a medicine recovered faster than those who did not take it, but they can't tell you why. Maybe those who took the medicine did so because they could afford it and would have recovered just as fast without it.

Extremely large Volumes of data Extremely high Velocity of data Extremely wide Variety of data

It's impossible to gather too much information.

data collection is essential for protecting individuals from false allegations. The more detailed information about a person, the more fairly we can judge.

I think there are a lot of industries that are collecting a lot of data and have not yet considered the implications of machine learning but will ultimately use it.

In the Internet age, it is inevitable that corporations and government agencies will have access to detailed information about people's lives.

You can harvest any data that you want, on anybody. You can infer any data that you like, and you can use it to manipulate them in any way that you choose. And you can roll out an algorithm that genuinely makes massive differences to people's lives, both good and bad, without any checks and balances.

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it.

It wasn't very long ago when you wouldn't even think about there being health information on the smartphone. There's financial information. There's your conversations; there's business secrets. There's probably more information about you on here than exists in your home.