Data Driven Quotes

To measure is to know. If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.

Imgur is a data-driven company, and our community is our most important signal. But you can't perfectly plot humans neatly into a chart. It takes someone with instincts and empathy to truly understand the community and represent them in all of the company decisions.

Go with the science!.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age.

You are what your record says you are.

We need to be pro-science; we have to go back to science.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

I'm a fact-based leader.

Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.

Every day we go over data and use science and data to drive policy and decision-making.

We need a new generation of executives who understand how to manage and lead through data. And we also need a new generation of employees who are able to help us organize and structure our businesses around that data.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

The science has changed from ambiguous to near-unanimous... Based on the data I'm now switching sides regarding global warming, from skeptic to convert.

Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy.

I believe you need scientific proof that something works before you entrust your health to it.

The story of the next century is the transition from an industrial, resourced-based economy to a knowledge economy.

Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.

I have to take decisions—not back hunches.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

A smart contract is a mechanism involving digital assets and two or more parties, where some or all of the parties put assets in, and assets are automatically redistributed among those parties according to a formula based on certain data that is not known at the time the contract is initiated.