Toomas Hendrik Ilves Quotes

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

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

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We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

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

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.

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

We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.

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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.

Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data, and we irrigate it with networks and connectivity, and it's been worked and tilled by unpaid workers and governments.

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.

People are seduced by signals from the world, but that is manipulation, not reality. Computers have learned more about us than we've learned about them.

Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

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.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big 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.

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.

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

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'