David McCandless Quotes

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

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

Data is the new oil.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.

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.

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.

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

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

Collect it all!

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

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.

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 are becoming the new raw material of business.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.

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

You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership.

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.

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.'

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

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.

Every day we have teams looking for new data sets.

I like to say I've been working on big data for so long, it used to be small data when I started working on it.