Data Visualization Quotes

I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics; they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But what you must never forget is that every one of those figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

It is easy to lie with statistics. It is hard to tell the truth without it.

We have entered an era where the kinds of data and analyses that people run have gotten incredibly complicated. So you have researchers using sophisticated software programs that they probably don't understand but are generally accepted and everyone [in the field] uses.

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.

I like the idea of using all this science and technology to allow for our clients to have a deeper insight into the market.

Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'

I'm a geek through and through. My last job at Microsoft was leading much of the search engine relevance work on Bing. There we got to play with huge amounts of data, with neural networks and other AI techniques, with massive server farms.

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

Making more sense out of my data, my needs, my tasks - to me, that's the future of Office.

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

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

I like to do matrices. One option per line, different facets for each column. Salary, location, happiness index, failure index, and all that.

We tried to avoid, you know, records. We were told over and over that was probably the most serious mistake and the reason was the system would never catch on, because we didn't have records.

Not to brag, but I do think I've gotten pretty adept on PowerPoint... except that I can't figure out how to use Excel!

Big data is indeed a buzzword but it is one that is frankly under-hyped.

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.

The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures

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

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

Sharing data allows us to research, communicate, consume media, buy and sell, play games, and more. In return, businesses develop products, scientists undertake research, and governments use data to enable voting, inform policies, collect tax, and provide better public services.

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I'll look at stats after a game to see the work I've done in different areas.

Those who rule data will rule the entire world.