Emily Oster Quotes

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

You'll never hear me talk about stats.

I don't really look at numbers. I couldn't tell you what my home-road stats are or anything like that.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.

Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.

We must never let a blizzard of statistics blind us to the real lives and people behind them.

The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.

I come from Wall Street, and you'll never see me do a PowerPoint because I'm all about Excel spreadsheets. If it's not in the numbers, I don't care how strategic it is; it doesn't play out.

Stats aren't everything.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

In disciplines as disparate as baseball, financial services, trucking and retail, people are realizing the power of data to help make better decisions.

I've never been a stat guy.

In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

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

Them as counts counts moren them as dont count

Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

If you consider any set of data without a preconceived viewpoint, then a viewpoint will emerge from the data.

A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior folks on the Romney campaign and they spent, what was it, $140, $160 million on data. And this friend of mine, who is a very sharp thinker, asked a series of questions, but the most important one he asked, he said, "What decisions did you make differently because of the data?" And he's coming from the private equity world where he wants to know, OK, and the answer from virtually every single senior Romney person was "nothing."

Information is just signs and numbers, while knowledge involves their meaning. What we want is knowledge, but what we get is information.