Data Quotes - Page 16

• In China, Internet surveillance has already become a profitable industry. In fact, a growing number of private firms eagerly assist the local police by aggregating this data and presenting it in easy-to-browse formats, allowing humans to pursue more analytical tasks.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Numbers, Police, Facts

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• The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Worry, Focus, Temptation

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• The once-science-fiction notion of hyper-connectivity - where we are all constantly connected to social networks and other bubbling streams of digital data - has rapidly become a widespread reality.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Reality, Fiction, Digital

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• As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Agency, Government

  "Edward Snowden is a hero". Article by Douglas Rushkoff, edition.cnn.com. June 11, 2013.

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• Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

  "Edward Snowden is a hero" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. June 10, 2013.

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• There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

  Eric Schmidt

  Civilization, Dawn, Information

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• I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Science, Investing, Reason

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2006). “The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, with "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"”, p.236, Broadview Press

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• Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.

  Henri Poincare

  Simplicity

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• In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

  John Tukey

  Thinking, Simplicity, Analysis

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• Empathic listening is so powerful because it gives you accurate data to work with. Instead of projecting your own autobiography and assuming thoughts, feelings, motives and interpretation, you're dealing with the reality inside another person's head and heart. You're listening to understand. You're focused on receiving the deep communication of another human soul.

  Stephen Covey

  Powerful, Communication, Heart

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.301, Mango Media Inc.

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• What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

  Clifford Geertz

  People, Construction

  Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.9, Basic Books

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• Take the situation of a scientist solving a problem, where he has certain data, which call for certain responses. Some of this set of data call for his applying such and such a law, while others call for another law.

  George H. Mead

  Law, Problem, Scientist

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• Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data bank. If you depend on your options to formulate your future, that future will be no more than a rearrangement of your past. Then he says, “Possibilities are completely different. When you ask ‘what is possible?’ you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a life beyond the mediocre, ask not ‘what are my options?’ but ‘What is possible?’

  Nicholas Lore

  Past, Views, Imagination

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• There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference.

  Dennis Miller

  Years, Differences, Degrees

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• This years keynote session is a clear reminder that wireless data technology is expanding its reach beyond that of an alternative to wireline telephony. We have gathered an exclusive group of business leaders to share how wireless is being integrated into their companys business strategies and what it means for their bottom lines. The presence of these telecom, media and entertainment giants on our center stage is a great indicator of the impact wireless data has made on countless industries.

  Steve Largent

  Mean, Technology, Impact

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• My study is NOT as a climatologist, but from a completely different perspective in
  which I am an expert … For decades, as a professional experimental test engineer, I have analyzed experimental data and watched others massage and present data. I became a cynic; My conclusion - 'if someone is aggressively selling a technical product who's merits are dependent on complex experimental data, he is likely lying'. That is true whether the product is an airplane or a Carbon Credit.

  Burt Rutan

  Lying, Airplane, Perspective

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• Belief Systems contradict both science and ordinary "common sense." B.S. contradicts science, because it claims certitude and science can never achieve certitude: it can only say, "This model"- or theory, or interpretation of the data- "fits more of the facts known at this date than any rival model." We can never know if the model will fit the facts that might come to light in the next millennium or even in the next week.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Faith, Light, Next Week

  Robert Anton Wilson (2002). “Tsog: The Thing That Ate the Constitution”

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• Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.

  Peter Armitage

  Discipline, Groups, May

  Peter Armitage, Geoffrey Berry, J. N. S. Matthews (2013). “Statistical Methods in Medical Research”, p.14, John Wiley & Sons

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• When evaluating a model, at least two broad standards are relevant. One is whether the model is consistent with the data. The other is whether the model is consistent with the 'real world.'

  Kenneth A. Bollen

  Real, Two, World

  Kenneth A. Bollen (2014). “Structural Equations with Latent Variables”, p.70, John Wiley & Sons

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• Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data. . . to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.

  Herman Chernoff

  Years, Decision, Statistics

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• A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.

  Morris H. DeGroot

  Statistics, Problem, Inference

  Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish (2002). “Probability and Statistics”, Addison Wesley

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• To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.

  Michael Healy

  Weakness, Statistics, Firsts

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• I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

  Fred Hoyle

  Statistics, Logic, Incredibles

  Quoted in D.O. Edge and M.J. Mulkay's Astronomy Transformed (p. 432)

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• The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.

  Samuel Karlin

  Science, Purpose, Statistics

  11th R.A. Fisher Memorial Lectures Royal Society 20 April 1983

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• Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.

  Maurice Kendall

  Population, Branches, Statistics

  Maurice George Kendall, Alan Stuart (1977). “The Advanced Theory of Statistics: Distribution theory”, Hafner Press

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