844 Quotes About Data

The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious public resources on understanding the 'why' - i.e., exploring the reasons as to why terrorists become terrorists - one can focus on predicting the 'when' so that a timely intervention could be made.

As befits Silicon Valley, 'big data' is mostly big hype, but there is one possibility with genuine potential: that it might one day bring loans - and credit histories - to millions of people who currently lack access to them.

They didn't even look at it, but they didn't have the data. We have the data in our office.

We will be sampling those irrigation wells, as well as other sampling. It is hard to predict what this investigation will find, and hard to predict a specific time frame when the report will be completed. The data they obtain will drive the rest of the investigation.

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

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

All three data sets merged together tells you all you need.

TI we think will be fairly bullish. We look to hear positive data points from them, particularly in handsets.

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom.