Ben Goldacre Quotes

The power of Ayasdi is its unique ability to automatically discover insights - regardless of complexity - without asking questions.

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.

Technologies like Ayasdi's exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.

Ayasdi's customers can finally learn the answers to questions that they didn't know to ask in the first place.

Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.

You and I are streaming data engines.

Collect it all!

The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale - the scale of sample size and of time - will truth emerge.

We know now data is so powerful, and you can learn so much about yourself and creating product with data.

Big data sets are never complete.

Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice, draw inferences from them, and define their meaning through our interpretations.

To learn something from your data, the forming of a hypothesis lies with the human being, which turns into a query, which becomes a result. The problem is that there are too many queries to make, too many questions to ask.

Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could.

Part of my responsibility as an officer was to oversee a team of analysts charged with synthesizing all of the data points on the map to see how one related to another. By bringing those data points together, a broader picture could be drawn and a strategy developed to counter the existing threat.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere.

Data is the new oil.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

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.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.

Everything is changing now that we are in the cloud in terms of sharing our data, understanding our data using new techniques like machine learning.

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

I learned analytics. It's a point of reference, of information. It has to be a factor in decision making.

I'm very lucky to work at bitly, with a data set that allows us to explore human social behavior at the scale of human social behavior.