Hilary Mason Quotes

The premise and promise of Big Data is that there are no stories, only patterns; that the human preference for story is aligned with the human tendency for error; and that only through dislocations in scale - the scale of sample size and of time - will truth emerge.

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.

It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.

I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

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.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

When I look at the next set of technologies that we have to build in Salesforce, it's all data-science-based technology. We don't need more cloud. We don't need more mobile. We don't need more social. We need more data science.

The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.

Technologies like Ayasdi's exist now to automatically discover information from data without having someone making guesses up front.

The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.

People believe the best way to learn from the data is to have a hypothesis and then go check it, but the data is so complex that someone who is working with a data set will not know the most significant things to ask. That's a huge problem.

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

The power of Ayasdi is its unique ability to automatically discover insights - regardless of complexity - without asking questions.

I'm an analytics girl.

Data science is the combination of analytics and the development of new algorithms.

You need to use data science and machine learning to get the ground truth of what's happening inside of a company.

For me, the most exciting aspect of my success is how the insights that Ayasdi's technology has found in data can truly impact people's lives.

I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

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

Every part of your business will change based on what I consider predictive analytics of the future.

Any enterprise that is serious about experiencing the power of Big Data in real-time should be looking at DataTorrent.

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

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