I was really intrigued by the idea of using live streams of data that’s relevant to real people, and that would allow us to reflect and learn about ourselves. – Aaron Koblin
You want less of the annoying nonsense that interferes with your portfolios and more of the significant data that allow you to become a less distracted, more purposeful investor. – Barry Ritholtz
Engel & Voelkers has a long-standing reputation for providing excellence to a demanding clientele. Now we provide even more by offering our technologically-savvy customers the most up-to-the-minute data on homes, from listing prices to photos – all at their fingertips. – Anthony Hitt
You have a natural tendency to want an emotionally satisfying tale – and to make investments based on that – despite times when the actual data may be telling you something different. – Barry Ritholtz
Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn’t really a data scientist. – Anthony Goldbloom
Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn’t have the data to back it up. – Ben Parr
The thing I’m particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It’s very exciting. – Andrea Barrett
By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. – Clayton M. Christensen
Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria – I would never have expected that or given it a moment’s thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways. – Alan Greenspan
You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. – Alvin Toffler
The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We’re constantly collecting more data, and it’s starting to be very relevant to our lives. – Aaron Koblin
Traditionally, when you talk to people who have Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, they’ll talk about how they’re in five or six studies, and they’ve been sequenced by each study. That’s just fat in the system. Just have a single data set that then you can share. You can make the entire system more efficient. – Anne Wojcicki
There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit… bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from. – Burt Rutan
If you’re in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared – it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data. – Andy Serkis
CloudShield did not see itself as a cloak-and-dagger company. It made its name for high-end hardware that could peer deeply into Internet traffic and pull out and analyze ‘packets’ of data as they flew by. – Barton Gellman
The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they’re made things. – Bruce Jackson
The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing. – Bruce Sterling
I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent. – Al Franken
There’s something that happens with the collection of a large amount of data when it’s dumped into an Excel spreadsheet or put into a pie chart. You run the risk of completely missing what it’s about. – Aaron Koblin
In the spirit of science, there really is no such thing as a ‘failed experiment.’ Any test that yields valid data is a valid test. – Adam Savage
Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics. – Brad Stone
The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant? – Blake Farenthold
Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn’t help that – the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn’t stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad. – Barton Gellman
I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation. – Carol W. Greider
When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences – the first person – with what the measurements show – the third person. – Daniel Goleman
Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the ‘last mile’ of the network over which data flows into a person’s home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years. – Marsha Blackburn