Whenever I see a forecast written out to two decimal places, I cannot help but wonder if there is a misunderstanding of the limitations of the data, and an illusion of precision. – Barry Ritholtz
The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data. – Jay Samit
One problem I have with drug companies is that they don’t make all their data public. – Irving Kirsch
Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best. – Ben Goldacre
Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles. – Jeff Bezos
When we share our personal data with business, its use should be transparent and secure. – Anna Eshoo
Overall, while the Rovi entertainment store is a nice stand-alone offering, more importantly, however, it is also a part of our total customer solution, fitting in now with our data and TotalGuide offerings. – Alfred Amoroso
Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject – basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. – so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps. – Jack Dangermond
The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores. – Charles Duhigg
We’ve got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that’s our life blood. – Billy Beane
We’re long past having to defend or explain why women should be on boards, given all the data that shows how companies with female as well as male directors perform better. It’s unfortunate when companies with a large percentage of women constituents don’t reflect that in their boardrooms. – Anne M. Mulcahy
I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it’s not a problem. – Aaron Koblin
There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, the exhaustive rendering of our conscious and unconscious patterns into data sets and algorithms has revolutionized what they know about us and, therefore, how precisely they can sell. – Charles Duhigg
The only way people can really be excellent is with truth, so you have to have a CFO who will have the intellectual capacity and conviction to tell you you’re wrong and try to support that with data. – Anthony Noto
Consumers deserve to know exactly what they’re getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan. – Anna Eshoo
The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails. – Barton Gellman
TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points. – Barry Ritholtz
You want to evaluate future borrowers, but in order to train an algorithm that will help you identify future defaults, you have to train it and evaluate it on past data. – Anthony Goldbloom
They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method. – Alan Dundes
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
The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years. – Barry Ritholtz
Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users. – Ben Parr
I’ve always shied away from online data storage. I don’t even use my employers’ network drives for anything sensitive. I want to control access myself. – Barton Gellman
The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that’s the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data. – Aubrey de Grey
There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009. – Ben Parr