Quotes About Data-driven Decision Making

#1. My only thought was to keep him away from Annabeth.

Rick Riordan

#2. Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Paul Gibbons

#3. As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.

Robert Lane Greene

#4. I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that ... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home ...

Spalding Gray

#5. [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

Fay Faron

#6. Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair

Federico Garcia Lorca

#7. One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior

Laszlo Bock

#8. 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

#9. By the time your perfect information has been gathered, the world has moved on.

Phil Dourado

#10. We are deluged with information. We have to process now three times as much data as we would have done 50 years ago. We're bombarded with tweets, with emails - a state of continuous disruption - and that's bad for our decision making and bad for our thinking.

Noreena Hertz

#11. And what great writers actually pass on is not so much their words, but they hand on their breath at their moments of inspiration.

Natalie Goldberg

#12. Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management
complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships
between policies and effects.

Paul Gibbons

#13. Instead of looking at leadership as decision making - as a rational process of sifting through data, analyzing trends, and making decisions based on predicting futures - a design framework emphasizes pragmatic experimentation.

Frank J. Barrett

#14. My hunch is that as the importance of a decision grows, the tendency to rely on quantitative analyses done by others tends to shrink. When the championship or the future of the company is on the line, managers tend to rely on their gut instincts.

Richard H. Thaler

#15. There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.

Jerry Yang

#16. You fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought ...

John Geddes

#17. The key to good decision making is evaluating the available information - the data - and combining it with your own estimates of pluses and minuses. As an economist, I do this every day.

Emily Oster