Data Quotes - Page 6

• Endless data show that diverse teams make better decisions. We are building products that people with very diverse backgrounds use, and I think we all want our company makeup to reflect the makeup of the people who use our products. That's not true of any industry really, and we have a long way to go.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Team

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg on tech's diversity gap". Interview with Jessica Guynn, www.usatoday.com. August 12, 2014.

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• I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Believe, Analysis, Freak

  "Is the Freedom of Information Act a good thing?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Trimming consists of clipping off little bits here and there from those observations which differ most in excess from the mean, and in sticking them onto those which are too small; a species of 'equitable adjustment,' as a radical would term it, which cannot be admitted in science.

  Charles Babbage

  Mean, Here And There, Excess

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.124, Cambridge University Press

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• Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper.

  Clifford Stoll

  Library, Fifty, Information

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• Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.

  Earnest Hooton

  Hands, Historical, Fuel

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• Perhaps... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Science, Body, Celestial Bodies

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• Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.

  Victor J. Stenger

  Structure, Positive Atheism

  Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books

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• A scientist naturally and inevitably ... mulls over the data and guesses at a solution. He proceeds to testing of the guess by new data-predicting the consequences of the guess and then dispassionately inquiring whether or not the predictions are verified.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Science, Inquiring, Scientist

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• Scientists who think science consists of unprejudiced data-gathering without speculation are merely cows grazing on the pasture of knowledge.

  Peter Medawar

  Knowledge, Science, Past

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• Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

  Nate Silver

  Data Science, Scientist, Statistician

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• One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

  Chris Murphy

  Real, Challenges, Quality

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• Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Reality, Collecting

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• With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories.

  Lucy Walker

  Real, Mean, Technology

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• If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Betray, Ifs

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• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  Dan Ariely

  Decision, Tools, Use

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• The whole enterprise of teaching managers is steeped in the ethic of data-driven analytical support. The problem is, the data is only available about the past. So the way weve taught managers to make decisions and consultants to analyze problems condemns them to taking action when its too late.

  Clayton Christensen

  Teaching, Past, Support

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• Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors

  Vinod Khosla

  Doctors, Needs, Bigs

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• Think of your existing power as the exponent in an equation that determines the value of information. The more power you have, the more additional power you derive from the new data.

  Bruce Schneier

  Thinking, Information, Exponents

  Bruce Schneier (2014). “Bruce Schneier on Trust Set”, p.552, John Wiley & Sons

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• A hacker doesnt deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Hackers, Profit, Activity

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• Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.

  Jamais Cascio

  Cutting, Clouds, Giants

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• The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

  Emily Oster

  Keys, Decision, Information

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• We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

  Michael Kimmel

  Zero, Winning, Men

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• Engineering, I think you can pick up. [A data scientist's] curiosity is built-in

  Scott Nicholson

  Thinking, Engineering, Curiosity

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• Concepts are vindicated by the constant accrual of data and independent verification of data. No prize, not even a Nobel Prize, can make something true that is not true.

  Stanley B. Prusiner

  Independent, Nobel, Constant

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• Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

  Ben Goldacre

  Pavement, Fabric, World

  "There's a wealth of data out there - why not let us use it?" by Ben Goldacre, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2011.

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