844 Quotes About Data

In a time when society is drowning in tsunamis of misinformation, it is possible to change the world for the better if we repeat the truth often and loud enough.

The complexity of a subject, if crucial for understanding the story, needs to be shown in the visualisation. Thus, in many cases, clarifying a subject requires increasing the amount of information, not reducing it.

Connecting any strategic infrastructure to the internet makes it vulnerable to security threats and most government systems connected in South are extremely vulnerable to hacking, data leakages and hijacking.

Above all else show the data.

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

We tend to overvalue the things we can measure and undervalue the things we cannot.

the next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless.