Quotes About Data

The major thing is to view biology as an information science.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

There's a digital revolution taking place both in and out of government in favor of open-sourced data, innovation, and collaboration.

Trust science, believe that innovation and discoveries are good for us, and make decisions based on data and evidence.

In general, I found that the more that debates can be about facts and data, the more likely government is to make sound decisions that benefit innovators and the American people.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

We, as a league, we have not in any way changed our desire to do everything we can to make it safe, make it safe as to head injury. We hope and will support any data that would give us more insight into any short- and long-term consequences. We would support that.

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you're wrong and try to support that with data.

Our intelligence experts are rightly concerned about the use of the TikTok app, especially on U.S. government-issued devices.

Google created the intent graph. Facebook created the social graph. We are creating the emotional graph.

With Street View, you're curating a data set capable of incredible emotional resonance for the person interacting with it because everyone grew up somewhere. And if your house is in this dataset, that's going to provide some emotional context for you.

One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

The value of having numbers - data - is that they aren't subject to someone else's interpretation. They are just the numbers. You can decide what they mean for you.

As a system administrator, it's in your best interest to befriend data center technicians and bribe them with coffee, caffeinated soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages

The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and most of all to enjoy the intellectual adventure enough to be able to do them easily and often.

Indeed, Wiener was the first information-age forebear to consider information, not as a tangible good to be bought and sold, but as "content"—whether that content was an ephemeral commodity like the news, a body of scientific knowledge, or the living substance of everyday experience human beings extracted from the world around them. To

Digital has changed delivery systems -- pipes -- but it hasn't changed what's going through the pipes.

To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.

Averages are bad measures. I want to see actuals, highs, lows and why—not an average. An average is just lazy.