#data

While it's wonderful that investors have access to all the data now available to them, it has become a full-time job to sift through it and separate out the valuable news from the useless noise. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

#available #become #data #full-time #full-time job

The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#aspects #basic #basic idea #between #comes

The plural of anecdote is not data. ↗

— Mark Sageman

#data #evidence #science #scientific-method #science

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 you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases. ↗

— Josiah Stamp

#science #statistics #science

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#data-mining #humanity #marketing #life

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

— Mike Schmoker

#motivation #success #inspirational

We have really good data that show when you take patients and you really inform them about their choices, patients make more frugal choices. They pick more efficient choices than the health care system does. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #choices #data #does #efficient

Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#data #declare #even #facing #like

That is really not much different from the search engines that are being constructed today for users throughout the entire world to allow them to search through databases to access the information that they require. ↗

— Stephen Cambone

#allow #being #constructed #databases #different

It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming. ↗

— John Coleman

#amazed #appalled #create #data #environmental