Nate Silver Quotes

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

Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days

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.

With faster Internet and better computers, you'd better believe we're creating and consuming more digital data.

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

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

Inside all the computers of any large corporation is every decision that gets made. But people spend a huge amount of time trying to find the correct piece of information.

Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.

The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.

Every two days now we create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

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.

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.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.

The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

Thanks to our modern era, facts are incredibly easy to come by. A few web searches for your subject matter, and you have all the information you could dream of.

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

I tend not to read reviews; there's too much out there in cyberspace.

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

Collect it all!