Top 39 Data Statistics Quotes
#1. ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large.
Tan Le
#2. By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.
Phil Dourado
#3. Years ago a statistician might have claimed that statistics deals with the processing of data ... to-days statistician will be more likely to say that statistics is concerned with decision making in the face of uncertainty.
Herman Chernoff
#4. Who needs theory when you have so much information? But this is categorically the wrong attitude to take toward forecasting, especially in a field like economics where the data is so noisy.
Nate Silver
#5. A problem of statistical inference or, more simply, a statistics problem is a problem in which data that have been generated in accordance with some unknown probability distribution must be analyzed and some type of inference about the unknown distribution must be made.
Morris H. DeGroot
#6. We lisp in numbers, in the U.S. We are deluged by ample, often mysterious statistics ... Like many in this country, I have come to regard statistics with doubt and merely as a hint of the probable shape of fact.
Martha Gellhorn
#7. What makes him successful is the way that he analyzes information. He is not just hunting for patterns. Instead, Bob combines his knowledge of statistics with his knowledge of basketball in order to identify meaningful relationships in the data.
Nate Silver
#8. The world is producing more and more data, ever faster and faster. Yet, as the New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge."3* Statistics is the most powerful tool we have for using information to some meaningful end,
Charles Wheelan
#9. The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.
Samuel Karlin
#10. I have stressed this distinction because it is an important one. It defines the fundamental difference between probability and statistics: the former concerns predictions based on fixed probabilities; the latter concerns the inference of those probabilities based on observed data.
Leonard Mlodinow
#11. If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.
Edward R. Tufte
#12. Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. - Josh Wills
Rachel Schutt
#13. One of the very first things students in intro psychology, statistics, or economics courses learn is how to "clean up the data.
Shawn Achor
#14. Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
Aldous Huxley
#15. Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals.
Peter Armitage
#16. Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#17. Besides, I'm not sure they let ferrets into Heaven and I'd miss old Mavet.
Karen Maitland
#19. My salary situation at 'Morning Joe' wasn't right. I made five attempts to fix it, then realized I'd made the same mistake every time: I apologised for asking.
Mika Brzezinski
#20. Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
George Herbert
#22. To me, the main weakness of EDA is its failure to enquire why the data were collected in the first place and its consequent tendency to apply ingenious methods largely because they are so attractively ingenious.
Michael Healy
#23. We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.
George Saintsbury
#24. People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas.
Margaret Millar
#26. Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.
Jack Newfield
#27. So shaken as we are, so wan with care,
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils
To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
William Shakespeare
#29. I like being boring to a certain extent. I don't have to be flashy. I get to put all of that into a show, and when it's over, I don't have to be that.
Stephen Colbert
#30. Data-driven statistics has the danger of isolating statistics from the rest of the scientific and mathematical communities by not allowing valuable cross-pollination of ideas from other fields.
Lawrence Shepp
#31. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out.
Charles Wheelan
#32. A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.
Christopher Morley
#33. A lot of data, whether it's imagery or other kinds of things, work really well when it's geographically laid out. I'm talking about imagery, statistics, incidents and other things that happen around the globe.
Jefferson Han
#34. Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
Roger Ebert
#36. Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena.
Maurice Kendall
#37. I love you Austin, and I'm not gonna stop begging until you tell me you love me too." Michaels
A.E. Via
#38. How can I free myself from sexuality? Eat nothing but rice?
Thomas Mann
#39. I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
Ben Bernanke
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