Rick Smolan Quotes

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.

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

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

Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

We know now data is so powerful, and you can learn so much about yourself and creating product with data.

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.

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

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.

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

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