Quotes About Analytics

I've been lucky enough with my NBA money to make some investments in some pretty cool things, whether it be partnering up with Ben Sturner and the Leverage Agency; being involved in an analytics company called Simatree; or creating a production company and working with brands and creating content in house.

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

You know, seeing the analytics explosion in the NBA. It wasn't something I was really into in college but in the NBA everything is numbers and how you can be more efficient, so that led to me trying to make my body more efficient, and obviously Fitbit was at the top of the line for that so it made sense.

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

Technologies like Ayasdi's exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.

When I look at the next set of technologies that we have to build in Salesforce, it's all data-science-based technology. We don't need more cloud. We don't need more mobile. We don't need more social. We need more data science.

Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.

When there are hiring decisions and promotion decisions to be made, people are hungry for data.

We discovered that there are actually fewer companies actually buying data.

Ayasdi's customers can finally learn the answers to questions that they didn't know to ask in the first place.

In baseball you have terrific data and you can be a lot more creative with it.

I need to know how many records I've sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we're gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.

The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world. As we've brought our franchises into eSports and moved to digital delivery, it's become even more complex and exciting - which, in turn, has allowed us attract even more top talent.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years.

IBM estimates that 90 percent of the world's data was created in the last two years. As co-authors Rick Smolan and Jennifer Erwitt stated in their exquisite photo book, The Human Face of Big Data, "Now, in the first day of a baby's life today, the world creates 70 times the data contained in the entire Library of Congress.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

Revenue is not where the focus of the company is at. We are focused on pushing out cool products like our analytics.

When guys feel like it's a contract year so you're forcing, you're stressing, you're trying to do that, what I try to tell them is GMs and scouts don't even look at your points per game. They look at your efficiency, your plus-minus. Everything's so analytical. You can average 15 and be a terrible analytic player - you're not going to get paid.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

Ultimately you want to optimize championship probability over some window. But if you literally take that to the logical extreme, you would be doing crazy stuff.

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn't have the data to back it up.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.