Data Is King Quotes

The scarcity of data is due in part to the familiar problems of gathering information on homosexuality, but it is also a result of the difficulty plaguing research endeavors on Caribbean piracy. Not only was the corpse of the last potential interviewee dipped in tar and chained to a gibbet between flood marks at Wapping Stairs when George II was King of England, but the usual literary remnants particular to subjects of historical investigation were never extant for the cadre of illiterate and inarticulate sea rovers. ~ B.R. Burg

As long as museums and universities send out expeditions to bring to light new forms of living and extinct animals and new data illustrating the interrelations of organisms and their environments, as long as anatomists desire a broad comparative basis human for anatomy, as long as even a few students feel a strong curiosity to learn about the course of evolution and relationships of animals, the old problems of taxonomy, phylogeny and evolution will gradually reassert themselves even in competition with brilliant and highly fruitful laboratory studies in cytology, genetics and physiological chemistry. ~ William King Gregory

By some estimates, the data-storage curve is rocketing upward at the rate of 800 percent per year. Organizations are collecting so much data they're overwhelmed. Families are no different; we have more things on disk, more photos, more items stored than we'll ever have to allocate time for. "Since Kodachrome made way for jpeg, pictures accumulate on hard drives like wet leaves in a gutter." (Jim Lewis, author of "The King is Dead") ~ Jeff Davidson

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died. ~ Bobby Scott

Research can only present data about the past. No one seriously believes that people's answers to hypothetical questions about the future accurately represent their future behaviour; they merely represent a current attitude, which may or may not be translated into future behaviour. ~ Stephen King

Although, as you well know, dictionary sales to laymen have been waning for a long time. As books have gone out of print and we've moved from reading to "consuming data streams," "texting" rather than writing - as Memes have become king - the average consumer has had much less need for real meanings. And Synchronic ~ Alena Graedon

Data really powers everything that we do. ~ Jeff Weiner

Ratios matter in Data Science. Dreams should be big and worries small. ~ Damian Mingle

The brain is machine which collects data, use it to collect data. Then use that data for a purpose! ~ Deyth Banger

If data is stored in an environment that replicates data, the application should take care not to do its own data replication ~ John Belamaric

Although data can make a compelling case for something, data rarely create the emotions needed to spur people into action ~ John Maeda

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless. ~ Tom Boellstorff

Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming. ~ Rob Pike

Aim for simplicity in Data Science. Real creativity won't make things more complex. Instead, it will simplify them. ~ Damian Duffy Mingle

Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician. ~ Nate Silver

Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think. ~ John Allen Paulos

A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data. ~ DJ Patil

To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data. ~ Stephen Few

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom. ~ Henry Mintzberg

Scientists ... resist ... making more of the data than the data make of themselves. ~ Natalie Angier

Nobody should try to use data unless he has collected data. ~ W. Edwards Deming

TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue. ~ John Poindexter

Yelp is in a very nice spot: local data, and especially review data, is one of the killer apps on mobile phones. ~ Jeremy Stoppelman

Data Scientists should refuse to be defined by someone else's vision of what's possible. ~ Damian Mingle

Pure data. You don't believe data - you test data." He grimaced. "If I could put my finger on the moment we genuinely fucked ourselves, it was the moment we decided that data was something you could use words like believe or disbelieve around. ~ Paolo Bacigalupi

That type of analysis could include data from training staffs and coaching staffs, performance data, and medical data. ~ Benjamin C. Alamar

If the data do not prove that indexing wins, well, the data are wrong. ~ John C. Bogle

Simple models and a lot of data trump more elaborate models based on less data. ~ Peter Norvig

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves. ~ Tim Berners-Lee

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. ~ Charles Babbage

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance. ~ Stephen L. Burns

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

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different. ~ Ken Thompson

Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist. ~ Anthony Goldbloom

We all say data is the next white oil. [Owning the oil field is not as important as owning the refinery because what will make the big money is in refining the oil. Same goes with data, and making sure you extract the real value out of the data.] ~ Maurice Levy

Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items.
From The Devil's DP Dictionary ~ Stan Kelly-Bootle

Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized. ~ Stephen Few

There are corporate private investigators, companies doing very forensic background checks on people. They buy data, they get their own data ... They don't want their industry publicised. ~ Heather Brooke

Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business. ~ Thomas H. Davenport

There is not substantial data that AZT stops the transmission of HIV from mother to child. There is too much conflicting data to make concrete policy. ~ Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory. ~ J. David Lewis-Williams

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make difference. ~ Mike Schmoker

You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else's mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

Extremely large Volumes of data Extremely high Velocity of data Extremely wide Variety of data ~ Judith Hurwitz

Our problems are not with the data, itself, but arise from our interpretation of the data. ~ Bruce H. Lipton

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

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set. ~ Josh Fox

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding. ~ Hal Varian

The computer is here to stay, therefore it must be kept in its proper place as a tool and a slave, or we will become sorcerer's apprentices, with data data everywhere and not a thought to think. ~ Jesse Shera

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

The 'data' (given) of research are not so much given as taken out of a constantly elusive matrix of happenings. We should speak of capta rather than data. ~ R.D. Laing

big data is usually dumb data. ~ Anonymous

Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people. ~ John Poindexter

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around. ~ Eric S. Raymond

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

All data leaves a trail. The search for data leaves a trail. The erasure of data leaves a trail. The absence of data, under the right circumstances, can leave the clearest trail of all. ~ C.S. Friedman

The next Freud will be a data scientist. The next Marx will be a data scientist. The next Salk might very well be a data scientist. ~ Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

'Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car. ~ Rick Smolan

Many new data scientists tend to rush past it to get their data into a minimally acceptable state, only to discover that the data has major quality issues after they apply their (potentially computationally intensive) algorithm and get a nonsense answer as output. ~ Sandy Ryza

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. ~ Reed Hundt

Have we been compromised by our own data? The answer is: Of course. ~ Jeff VanderMeer

Data is your Beta... ~ Kshitij Bhatia

We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights. ~ Jay Baer

We also need to be reminded that there are implications of meaning within data, both in terms of how we look at data meaningfully (as in how it informs our decisions and interactions) and how we see meaning in data (as in how we recognize patterns that tell us if people value what we're doing). ~ Kate O'Neill

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years. ~ Ben Bernanke

I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent. ~ Al Franken

Invite your Data Science team to ask questions and assume any system, rule, or way of doing things is open to further consideration. ~ Damian Mingle

There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future. ~ Rick Smolan

As a Facebook user, do I have control of the data Facebook keeps about me? Concretely: can I examine and modify that data using tools of my choosing which are built for my needs? ~ Eric S. Raymond

More data is not always the answer. ~ Alan Hirsch

The game was played hard in those days, Mr.King, with plenty of fuck-you. ~ Stephen King

Every king sleeps, but not every king wakes up as king! The snakes of the intrigue crawl around during the night! The cleverest king is the least sleeping king! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data. ~ Rick Smolan

No data are excluded on subjective or arbitrary grounds. No one piece of data is more highly valued than another. The consequences of this policy have to be accepted, even if they prove awkward. ~ Jennifer K. McArthur

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded. ~ David Cone

What we have is a data glut. ~ Vernor Vinge

I've never been good with people. I've always preferred my lab. I like data. Data is consistent, it's steady, it's easy to understand. With data, you always know what the answer is. ~ Becky Chambers

On the corporate side, the upshot of our data (the benefit to us) isn't all that interesting unless you're an economist. In theory, your data means ads are better targeted, which means less marketing spend is wasted, which means lower prices. At the very least, the data they sell means you get to use genuinely useful services like Facebook and Google without paying money for them. ~ Christian Rudder

If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of correlations. ~ Kenneth Waltz

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary. ~ Frank Herbert

It is not a medicine. You don't know what's in it. If there were compelling scientific and medical data supporting marijuana's medical benefits that would be one thing. But the data is not there. ~ Andrea Barthwell

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

Big data is mostly about taking numbers and using those numbers to make predictions about the future. The bigger the data set you have, the more accurate the predictions about the future will be. ~ Anthony Goldbloom

Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from Day 1 to be an offline device and to sit on a shelf. An LTFS-formatted LTO-6 tape can store 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and almost 6 TB with compression. That means many data centers could fit their entire data set into a small FedEx box. With LTFS the sending and receiving data centers no longer need to be running the same application to access the data on the tape. ~ George Arthur Crump

Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. ~ David Dixon

If you want data to survive, carve it in rock. ~ Jack McDevitt

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

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry? ~ Kevin Rudd

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions? ~ Patrick P. Gelsinger

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer. ~ Terence McKenna

The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Marc Bekoff

I don't think bulk data collection was an enormous factor here, because generally, that deals with overseas calls to the United States. But what bulk data collection did was make the process more efficient. So there were no silver bullets there. ~ Michael Leiter

data mining is the act of digging into large amounts of raw data to discover unique nontrivial useful patterns. ~ Anil Maheshwari

Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. ~ Linus Torvalds

Turning something into low resolution data does seem to make it worth less in the modern world. ~ Pete Townshend

That's all data is. A gift from yesterday that you receive today to make tomorrow better. ~ Jon Acuff

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it. ~ Tony Fadell

The Scientific Revolution proposed a very different formula for knowledge: Knowledge = Empirical Data x Mathematics. If we want to know the answer to some question, we need to gather relevant empirical data, and then use mathematical tools to analyse the data. For ~ Yuval Noah Harari