Quotes About Data And Statistics

#1. So it is with statistics; no amount of fancy analysis can make up for fundamentally flawed data. Hence the expression garbage in, garbage out. - Author: Charles Wheelan

#2. 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. - Author: Michael Healy

#3. People, alas, are more impressed by statistics than they are by ideas. - Author: Margaret Millar

#4. To clarify, *add* data. - Author: Edward R. Tufte

#5. 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. - Author: Jack Newfield

#6. 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. - Author: Lawrence Shepp

#7. Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images. - Author: E.L. Doctorow

#8. 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. - Author: Jefferson Han

#9. Life should be more about living in the moment than fearing what's happening outside it. It's about honoring what you want to do at any given time, regardless of what everyone else is doing. There's no use worrying about things that are out of your control. - Author: Connor Franta

#10. I want to give you all of me. But will you want all of me when you realize I'm in pieces? - Author: Jeannine Allison

#11. More data means more information, but it also means more false information. - Author: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. - Author: Maurice Kendall

#13. I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that! - Author: Alanis Morissette

#14. I like being president because i get a cool house - Author: Barack Obama

#15. 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. - Author: Ben Bernanke

#16. If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers. - Author: Edward R. Tufte

#17. By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on. - Author: Phil Dourado

#18. 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. - Author: Herman Chernoff

#19. Walking on a path of uncertainties,
Shuffling on the probabilities of uncertainties,
Waging on the possibilities of uncertainties,
Waiting for the occurrences of uncertainties,
Solving the mysteries of wandering uncertainties,
We move, lead and live. - Author: Pushpa Rana

#20. 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. - Author: Nate Silver

#21. One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither. - Author: Tove Jansson

#22. Any actor wants their movies and their work to be seen. You don't make a movie or get into this profession for your work not to be seen and just to show them to your mates at home. - Author: Sam Worthington

#23. 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. - Author: Morris H. DeGroot

#24. - fear comes only when you don't have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there's nothing new worth learning. I simply can't understand how any of that will occur today. - Author: Trish Mercer

#25. 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. - Author: Martha Gellhorn

#26. 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. - Author: Nate Silver

#27. 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, - Author: Charles Wheelan

#28. The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question. - Author: Samuel Karlin

#29. 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. - Author: Leonard Mlodinow

#30. ! want to leverage the creativity of researchers across mathematics, statistics, data mining, computer science, biology, medicine, and the public at large. - Author: Tan Le

#31. Data scientist (noun): Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician. - Josh Wills - Author: Rachel Schutt

#32. One of the very first things students in intro psychology, statistics, or economics courses learn is how to "clean up the data. - Author: Shawn Achor

#33. Statistics may be defined as the discipline concerned with the treatment of numerical data derived from groups of individuals. - Author: Peter Armitage

#34. Above all else show the data. - Author: Edward R. Tufte

#35. I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically. - Author: James Spader