Data Availability Quotes

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played.

All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

You can only make decisions with the information you have at the time

Never before in human history has more information been available to more people. But at the same time, never before in human history has more bad information been available to more people.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.

We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.

A great many decisions just can’t be made with confidence because the data just doesn’t exist …. [however] just because we don’t have the information doesn’t mean that we can’t get it.

The best thing that would happen is for Facebook to open up its data. Failing that, there are other ways to get that information.

Overall, the world has never been better informed.

In every branch of knowledge the progress is proportional to the amount of facts on which to build, and therefore to the facility of obtaining data.

The amount of data and analysis available for free is a true example of information explosion has leveled the playing field for individual investors.

My work shows how important it is that independent researchers should have access to data so that government statistics can be checked and so that the democratic debate within India can be informed by the different interpretations of different scholars.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

It is our goal to provide full public access to as many files as we possibly can.

The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

There's a project that I started at HHS called the Health Data Initiative. The whole idea was to take a page from what the government had done to make weather data and GPS available back in the day.

One of the great things about the space program is it's super well-documented.

I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable and recorded by everyone all the time.

Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

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

I want the world's data accessible.