Gary Wolf Quotes

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.'

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

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

Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

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 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.

Data drives success. That is how we began our success with eSpeed. It was always based on the 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.

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.

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

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

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.