Quotes About Analysis

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

No business is good when, on the last day of the month, you're like, 'What was the usage for the month?'

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.

A potentially useful property of forecasts based on cointegration is that when extended some way ahead, the forecasts of the two series will form a constant ratio, as is expected by some asymptotic economic theory.

Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.

The people who write official histories for the Army believe that a generation needs to pass before you can tackle the official history. It's useful to have some distance. Sources become available. Passions cool. It allows an opportunity to make some real assessments and judgments about personalities and characters.

The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.

Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.

The end-to-end value chain analysis proposed by the World Economic Forum has proved to be useful methodology, not only to identify trade barriers but also to highlight the importance of coordination among public-sector institutions.

About the only useful thing my economics degree taught me was that, in all decisions in life, you have to do a cost-benefit analysis.

A video referee is useful for sure.

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to you.

When it comes to assessing the chances of some complicated combination of events, gut feelings are pretty much useless.

I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base.

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are sharing a huge amount of qualitative data, too - and a lot of companies either don't know how or forget to act on it.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.

We can inform decisions when we look at data points on retention rates with your first hundred users, when we look at things like survey responses from your first hundred users.

Everybody uses computers to train so much now that the first nine or 10 moves of a match are made without thinking.

Richard Hoggart's cultural analysis 'The Uses of Literacy' was published in 1957, but its influence still hovers over anyone setting out to write seriously about people's affection for things that aren't serious, such as the products of pop culture.

The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.