Data Science Quotes

Data scientist is just a sexed up word for statistician.

No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

Data is the next Intel Inside.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.

In God we trust; all others bring data.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.

Data is the new oil? No: Data is the new soil.

Things get done only if the data we gather can inform and inspire those in a position to make a difference.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Data that is loved tends to survive.

Data really powers everything that we do.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

With data collection, 'the sooner the better' is always the best answer.

Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.

If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

Big data isn’t about bits, it’s about talent.

With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.

In the next 10 years, data science and software will do more for medicine than all of the biological sciences together.

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

Data are becoming the new raw material of business.

I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.

If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.

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

Intellectual Property is the oil of the 21st century.