14 Quotes by Anthony Goldbloom

I got really excited about the idea of data-driven startup just as I was starting Kaggle.

Business analytics or predictive modelling is a $100 billion industry, and $41 billion is spent on outsourced business analytics every year. I think that's about twice the size of the movie industry - it's really big.

We think Facebook and Google know a lot about us - who knows more about us than AmEx, MasterCard and Visa? They know exactly what we spend and where we spent it... so they're looking at ways to unlock it.

Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.

Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.

I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.

Without the discipline of having a wife to come home to, you end up just working all the time.

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.

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