Data Quotes - Page 36

• I hate when people ask me to: "Massage the data".

  Ronald Coase

  Hate, People, Massage

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• Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.

  Ronald Coase

  Voice, Giving, Trying

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• This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.

  John Tukey

  Boring, My Favorite, Flats

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• Visualization is often used for evil - twisting insignificant data changes and making them look meaningful. Don't do that crap if you want to be my friend. Present results clearly and honestly. If something isn't working - those reviewing results need to know.

  John Tukey

  Meaningful, Evil, Needs

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• I'm getting hassled by a couple of people to release the CRU station temperature data. Don't any of you three tell anybody that the UK has a Freedom of Information Act.

  Phil Jones

  Couple, People, Energy

  "Why You Should Be Hot and Bothered About 'Climate-gate'" by John R. Lott, www.foxnews.com. November 24, 2009.

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• I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

  Keith Briffa

  Nice, Simple, Reality

  "Controversy behind climate science's 'hockey stick' graph" by Fred Pearce, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Hope consists in asserting that there is at the heart of being, beyond all data, beyond all inventories and all calculations, a mysterious principle which is in connivance with me

  Gabriel Marcel

  Heart, Principles, Inventory

  Gabriel Marcel (1998). “Gabriel Marcel's Perspectives on The Broken World”

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• As a former District Attorney and Attorney General, I know the urgency of providing safe homes, schools and neighborhoods for all. This remarkable tour-de-force is a powerful study of one promising solution: a data-rich, eminently readable demonstration of why we should treat gun violence as an American epidemic.

  Scott Harshbarger

  Powerful, Home, School

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• I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological journals, to submit the data that has informed your research—the idea being that people will replicate it, check it, verify it. So this is something that needs to be done for journalism as well. There is an immediate power imbalance, in that readers are unable to verify what they are being told, and that leads to abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Dna, Ideas, People

  "No Secrets" by Raffi Khatchadourian, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2010.

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• As a physician I have sympathy for patients suffering from pain and other medical conditions. Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's benefits. Based on current evidence, I believe that marijuana is a dangerous drug and that there are less dangerous medicines offering the same relief from pain and other medical symptoms.

  Bill Frist

  Pain, Believe, Marijuana

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• Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.

  David Chalmers

  Perception, World, Controversial

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• I consider high-speed data transmission an invention that became a major innovation. It changed the way we all communicate

  Dean Kamen

  Innovation, Way, Speed

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• Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data.

  Dennis Ritchie

  Filled Out, People, Input

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• In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Progress, Branches, Facts

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.209, CUP Archive

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• The scientific excitement in comparing theory with data, and developing some understanding of global changes that are occurring, is what makes all the other stuff worth it.

  James Hansen

  Understanding, Stuff, Excitement

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• If you can follow only one bit of data, follow the earnings - assuming the company in question has earnings. I subscribe to the crusty notion that sooner or later earnings make or break an investment in equities. What the stock price does today, tomorrow, or next week is only a distraction.

  Peter Lynch

  Next Week, Doe, Make Or Break

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.

  T. Colin Campbell

  Years, Eggs, Firsts

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• No one who has experienced the intense involvement of computer modeling would deny that the temptation exists to use any data input that will enable one to continue playing what is perhaps the ultimate game of solitaire.

  James Lovelock

  Science, Games, Temptation

  James Lovelock (1987). “Gaia: a new look at life on earth”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

  Robert J. Shiller

  People, Challenges, Use

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• There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.

  John Tukey

  Pie, Type

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• Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.

  Gianni Vattimo

  Law, Pirate, Way

  Gianni Vattimo, Santiago Zabala (2014). “Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx”, p.93, Columbia University Press

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• Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist

  George V

  Artist, Dilettantes

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• Even the best data security systems can't protect private taxpayer information from entrepreneurial foreign businesses than can make huge profits selling U.S. taxpayer information.

  Melissa Bean

  Security Systems, Information, Selling

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• Rule 1. Original data should be presented in a way that will preserve the evidence in the original data for all the predictions assumed to be useful.

  Walter A. Shewhart

  Way, Predictions, Should

  Walter A. Shewhart (2012). “Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Data is of course important in manufacturing, but I place the greatest emphasis on facts.

  Taiichi Ohno

  Important, Facts, Emphasis

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