Gurjeet Singh Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

My mission is to bring the power of big data insights and analytics to every company.

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.

I sit on the board of Cloudera, a big vantage point of big data.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

If you have a lot of data and you want to create value from that data, one of the things you might consider is building up an AI team.

We are going to completely change what it means to do advanced analytics with our data solutions. We have machine-learning stuff that is about really bringing advanced analytics and statistical machine learning into data-science departments everywhere.

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

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

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.

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.

There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future.

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

There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.