Data Quotes - Page 3

A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

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.

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.

Data really powers everything that we do.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.

We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eye.

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

Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, Instagram, all these companies are businesses first, but, as a close second, they're demographers of unprecedented reach, thoroughness, and importance. Practically as an accident, digital data can now show us how we fight, how we love, how we age, who we are, and how we're changing. All we have to do is look.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

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

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

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.

I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Whereas much of what we know from ancient history is derived from one or two sources, we have no fewer than nine ancient sources, inside and outside the New Testament, corroborating the disciples' conviction that they encountered the resurrected Jesus. That's an avalanche of data.