Jose Ferreira Quotes

Education is one of the industry categories with a big potential for AI. And Coursera is already doing some of this work.

Big data is going to make us all healthier.

Health care and education, in my view, are next up for fundamental software-based transformation.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

Everything is going to be connected to cloud and data... All of this will be mediated by software.

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.

Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.

There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future.

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

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.

Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions.

The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.

Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

We're rapidly entering a world where everything can be monitored and measured. But the big problem is going to be the ability of humans to use, analyze and make sense of the data.

Social media has given companies access to unprecedented amounts of information on client behavior and preferences - so-called Big Data. But making sense of it all and turning it into actionable policy has been elusive.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.