Data Quotes - Page 30

• I'm pretty active anyway, but I'm also competitive.I used my Fitbit as an example of the innate power of data to turn information into insights and actions.

  Michael Dell

  Example, Information, Action

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I have no doubt that in the future, wearable devices like Fitbit will know my blood pressure, hydration levels and blood sugar levels as well. All of this data has the potential to transform modern medicine and create a whole new era of personalized care.

  Michael Dell

  Medicine, Hydration, Blood

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

  Hilary Liftin

  Jobs, Narrative, Form

  "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

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• The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Justification, Models

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• The whole point of building theoretical systems is to explain what humans know by pre-theoretical experience. That is the starting point for any philosophy. That is the data it seeks to explain. If it fails to explain the data of experience, then it has failed the test. It has been falsified.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Philosophy, Tests, Failing

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• On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data or tamper with it.

  Muir Russell

  Energy, Temperature, Environment

  "'We Win': Conservative Media Celebrate Public Misconception That Climate Scientists 'Falsified' Data" by Shauna Theel, www.mediamatters.org. August 8, 2011.

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• The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.

  John Holdren

  Energy, Groups, Mail

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• The World Health Organization recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes and additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year. With one billion people overweight around the world-of whom at least 300 million are obese-that's an additional one billion tonnes.

  Jonathon Porritt

  Years, Organization, People

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• ...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Energy, Climate, East

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• These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.

  Leland Yee

  Children, School, Player

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• Every separate sector of artistic creation has its own basic rules . . . data which govern it. They are contained in the textbooks on these subjects. A professional knows the rules of the game as a matter of course so that he can achieve, in the upper strata above that, a high quality of art.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Art, Writing, Games

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• Vaughan Telecom installers and contractors ensure the highest quality service for data and network cabling in Toronto and GTA area.

  Edward Abbey

  Photography, Quality, Toronto

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• Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

  Thomas H. Davenport

  Bigs, Company

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• One [Big Data] challenge is how we can understand and use big data when it comes in an unstructured format.

  Steven McDonnell

  Challenges, Use, Bigs

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• Scientists like ripping problems apart, collecting as much data as possible and then assembling the parts back together to make a decision.

  Shirley M. Tilghman

  Memorable, Science, Decision

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• As a geologist, I love Earth observations, but it is ridiculous to tie this objective to a 'consensus' that humans are causing global warming when human experience, geologic data and history, and current cooling can argue otherwise. 'Consensus,' as many have said, merely represents the absence of definitive science. You know as well as I, the 'global warming scare' is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision making.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Ties, Government, Decision

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• This treaty [Kyoto] is, in our opinion, based upon flawed ideas. Research data on climate change do not show that human use of hydrocarbons is harmful. To the contrary, there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful...agreement would have very negative effects upon the technology of nations throughout the world, especially those that are currently attempting to lift from poverty and provide opportunities to the over 4 billion people in technologically underdeveloped countries.

  Frederick Seitz

  Country, Opportunity, Technology

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• Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we must learn to make sense of statements that at least resemble these. What occurs during a scientific revolution is not fully reducible to a re-interpretation of individual and stable data. In the first place, the data are not unequivocally stable.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Science, Understanding, Doe

  Thomas S. Kuhn (2012). “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• In my view, our approach to global warming exemplifies everything that is wrong with our approach to the environment. We are basing our decisions on speculation, not evidence. Proponents are pressing their views with more PR than scientific data. Indeed, we have allowed the whole issue to be politicized-red vs blue, Republican vs Democrat. This is in my view absurd. Data aren't political. Data are data. Politics leads you in the direction of a belief. Data, if you follow them, lead you to truth.

  Michael Crichton

  Issues, Blue, Views

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• I think there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we are seeing almost weekly or even daily scientists are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change.

  Rick Perry

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rick Perry accuses scientists of 'manipulating' climate data". www.theguardian.com. August 18, 2011.

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• 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.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Sides, Global Warming, Switching

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• Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured originally; but the laws have later been found to apply over much wider ranges of observations and much more accurately than the original data justified.

  Richard Hamming

  Science, Law, Scientific Method

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• As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we do what people always do: we rely on the familiar, the trusted and the personal. The incredible surplus of digital data means that human actions, generosity and sacrifice are more important than they ever were before.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Mean, Sacrifice

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• We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it.

  danah boyd

  Forget, Obsessed, Bigs

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• The ultimate purpose of collecting the data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Decision, Purpose, Action

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