Quotes by Data How could Digital's collapse be so precipitous? It's because, in many ways, financial performance data is misleading. As you move up to the top of the market, you're getting rid of the less profitable products at the low end and adding business with more attractive margins at the high end. The rate of unit volume growth might be tapering off as you pursue these smaller markets, but your margins actually look better. So Wall Street rewards your stock price until you hit the ceiling. Clayton Christensen data wall moving What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. Clifford Geertz construction data people Data isn't information, any more than fifty tons of cement is a skyscraper. Clifford Stoll library data fifty The information highway is being sold to us as delivering information, but what it's really delivering is data... Unlike data, information has utility, timeliness, accuracy, a pedigree... Editors serve as barometers of quality, and most of an editor's time is spent saying no. Clifford Stoll data editors quality PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations. Clive Thompson data opposites thinking Don't be buffaloed by experts and elites. Experts often possess more data than judgment. Elites can become so inbred that they produce hemophiliacs who bleed to death as soon as they are nicked by the real world. Colin Powell data real exercise Experts often possess more data than judgment. Colin Powell data experts action Data is your eyes, not your brain. Colleen Jones data eye brain In a world where data is coin of the realm, and transmissions are guarded by no better sentinels than man-made codes and corruptible devices, there is no such thing as a secret. C.S. Friedman data secret men Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful. Cynthia Kenyon data powerful brain We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions. Dan Ariely data tools decision Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful. Dan Heath data stories meaningful IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure. Dan Jones size protection data Reliable data on the outsourcing of American jobs is sorely missing from the debate on globalization. Dan Lipinski data missing-you jobs I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8. Dan Savage california data gay Context is to data what water is to a dolphin Dan Simmons dolphins data water We're so obsessed with [big] data, we forget how to interpret it. danah boyd obsessed data forget The key is to let computers do what they are good at, which is trawling these massive data sets for something that is mathematically odd. And that makes it easier for humans to do what they are good at - explaining those anomalies. Daniel Bruhl data anomalies keys The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it. Daniel Gilbert data doe littles When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. Daniel Goleman yield data mind «56789101112131415»