William Clay Ford Jr. Quotes

Data really powers everything that we do.

There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data.

Context is to data what water is to a dolphin

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal 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.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

Even more important than statistics is then having the staff that can take the data and ensure it's presented in a way that improves individuals and teams.

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

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

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

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

You and I are streaming data engines.

Collect it all!

I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.

My job is to analyze our data set to understand it and build products on it. I look at raw data, do the math to clean it up, and build systems to make it easy to understand.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.

Data is not useful until it becomes information.

Above all else show the data.

Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

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

The next darwin is more likely to be a data wonk than a naturalist wandering through an exotic landscape.

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.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.