Hilary Mason Quotes

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

With data collection, 'The sooner the better' is always the best answer.

Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.

Collect it all!

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

The bigger a data set that you have, the more polls, the more surveys that you have that people undertake, the more accurate your models are going to be. That's just a fact of data science.

Big data sets are never complete.

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.

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

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

I collect a lot of data. We all do.

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.

Every company has messy data, and even the best of AI companies are not fully satisfied with their data. If you have data, it is probably a good idea to get an AI team to have a look at it and give feedback. This can develop into a positive feedback loop for both the IT and AI teams in any company.

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

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.

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.

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

I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.

Go out and collect data and, instead of having the answer, just look at the data and see if the data tells you anything. When we're allowed to do this with companies, it's almost magical.

I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.'

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

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Many well-meaning attempts to address public concern about privacy reflect an outdated understanding of the contemporary data ecosystem.

As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.