Mark Twain Quotes

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

Data really powers everything that we do.

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.

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

I worry about any type of bulk collection. If you collect everything, how do you know that you’ve got anything

If there can be three certain things in life, instead of two, it might be death, taxes, and data.

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.

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.

With big data comes big responsibilities.

Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data and the action is prediction.

The cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.

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.

The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.

To do that they, the NSA specifically, targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyses them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient, and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting you're communications to do so.