Top Data Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of Data quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Edward de Bono
The analysis of data will not by itself produce new ideas.
- Edward de Bono
Collection: Data
Image of Robert J. Shiller
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
Collection: Data
Image of Fred Wilson
Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.
- Fred Wilson
Collection: Data
Image of Bruce Sterling
University, as institutions, pre-date the information economy by many centuries and are not for-profit cultural entities, whose reason of existence (purportedly) is to discover truth, codify it through techniques of scholarship, and then teach it. Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization not just download data into student skulls.
- Bruce Sterling
Collection: Data
Image of Robert Rodriguez
Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.
- Robert Rodriguez
Collection: Data
Image of Paul Nurse
Ever since Sir Isaac Newton's times, scientists have worked in the same sort of way: They show a great respect for experiment and observation, They don't cherry pick data, They take a skeptical approach to what they do. And then scientists work together to get a consensus as to what should be believed And that generates very reliable knowledge and that reliable knowledge drives innovation
- Paul Nurse
Collection: Data
Image of Edward Tufte
Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.
- Edward Tufte
Collection: Data
Image of Edward Tufte
Above all else show the data.
- Edward Tufte
Collection: Data
Image of Vernor Vinge
What we have is a data glut.
- Vernor Vinge
Collection: Data
Image of Sean M. Carroll
Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.
- Sean M. Carroll
Collection: Data
Image of Randall Munroe
If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.
- Randall Munroe
Collection: Data
Image of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Collection: Data
Image of Robert Silverberg
Autobiography. Apparently one should not name the names of those one has been to bed with, or give explicit figures on the amount of money one has earned, those being the two data most eagerly sought by readers; all the rest is legitimate to reveal.
- Robert Silverberg
Collection: Data
Image of Margaret Heffernan
Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.
- Margaret Heffernan
Collection: Data
Image of Eric Schmidt
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
Collection: Data
Image of Chris Lynch
This is the time to be super aggressive
- Chris Lynch
Collection: Data
Image of Jackie French
I've always found the world is the most extraordinarily fascinating place and the more data you get, the more you can actually put pieces into this jigsaw.
- Jackie French
Collection: Data
Image of Dan Simmons
Context is to data what water is to a dolphin
- Dan Simmons
Collection: Data
Image of Tim O'Reilly
Who has the data has the power.
- Tim O'Reilly
Collection: Data
Image of Leonard Mlodinow
We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are done analyzing the patterns, that out picture is clear and accurate. But is it?
- Leonard Mlodinow
Collection: Data
Image of Evgeny Morozov
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
Collection: Data
Image of Tavis Smiley
The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category.
- Tavis Smiley
Collection: Data
Image of Linus Torvalds
Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
- Linus Torvalds
Collection: Data
Image of Michael Palmer
Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.
- Michael Palmer
Collection: Data
Image of Nate Silver
Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.
- Nate Silver
Collection: Data
Image of Michael Behe
The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.
- Michael Behe
Collection: Data
Image of Henry Mintzberg
While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.
- Henry Mintzberg
Collection: Data
Image of John Tukey
This is my favorite part about analytics: Taking boring flat data and bringing it to life through visualization.
- John Tukey
Collection: Data
Image of John Tukey
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
Collection: Data
Image of John Tukey
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
Collection: Data
Image of Dee Hock
Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping
- Dee Hock
Collection: Data
Image of Esther Duflo
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do - if there's enough of it - is uncover, in the mess and the noise of the world, some lines of music that actually have harmony. It's there, somewhere.
- Esther Duflo
Collection: Data
Image of Geoffrey Moore
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
- Geoffrey Moore
Collection: Data
Image of Jay Baer
We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.
- Jay Baer
Collection: Data
Image of Jay Baer
The future of marketing isn't big data, it's big understanding.
- Jay Baer
Collection: Data
Image of Jan Hatzius
Biggest pent-up negative wealth effect you can see in the economic data going back to 1952.
- Jan Hatzius
Collection: Data
Image of Jan Hatzius
While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonable show a much more subdued picture.
- Jan Hatzius
Collection: Data
Image of Anatol Rapoport
On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.
- Anatol Rapoport
Collection: Data
Image of Norwood Russell Hanson
All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.
- Norwood Russell Hanson
Collection: Data
Image of Erik Brynjolfsson
We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.
- Erik Brynjolfsson
Collection: Data
Image of danah boyd
We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.
- danah boyd
Collection: Data
Image of Chapman Cohen
I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.
- Chapman Cohen
Collection: Data
Image of Hester Lynch Piozzi
If truth can be found in any sublunary science, numbers will produce it, for to that at last almost all other sciences refer for confirmation.
- Hester Lynch Piozzi
Collection: Data
Image of James Clerk Maxwell
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
Collection: Data
Image of George Raveling
The best decision-makers are always armed with the best information and data!
- George Raveling
Collection: Data
Image of Carmen Ortiz
Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.
- Carmen Ortiz
Collection: Data
Image of John Landy
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- John Landy
Collection: Data
Image of Gian Fulgoni
There is an abundance of data available in the digital world and if it’s harnessed effectively and correctly it can provide terrific insights.
- Gian Fulgoni
Collection: Data
Image of Keith Devlin
Hans Rosling typically would go into the room, and he would ask the audience questions. Often they had to answer them with clickers or raising their hands or something. We get [data] wrong because 50 years ago that wasn't the case and because we haven't had these graphics we don't realize that over the last 30, 40, 50 years things have changed dramatically. And you see how the world has been getting a better, safer, more homogeneous place. It just has.
- Keith Devlin
Collection: Data
Image of Richard Saul Wurman
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
- Richard Saul Wurman
Collection: Data