Our five senses are faulty data-taking devices, and they need help.
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.
Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.
I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
I was raised on a dairy farm and ate plenty of meat and eggs until about twenty years ago. I started doing nutritional research, and a decade pr so after that my family made some major dietary changes. I'm just paying attention to what the data are telling me: The scientific evidence came first.
Data by itself is not useful. Data is only useful if it can be applied for public benefit.
Data is not useful until it becomes information.
Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.
Consumers deserve to know exactly what they're getting for their money when they sign-up for a 4G data plan.
Who has the data has the power.
A curious mind does not jump to conclusions but tests carefully and thoroughly. A curious mind will draw on all of life's experience to get to the big "uh huh. " The curious cut the data by quintile, by segment, and by user.
Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap.
I don't know if it's something that we as a species are hardwired for or if it's more of a contemporary phenomenon related to technology and rapid dissemination of data. I did know that whatever its cause or nature, I wanted to interrogate this phenomenon. But the only way for me to do that, the only tool I have to dissect it with, is a fictional narrative.
In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom.
When you see data, doubt [them]! When you see measurements, doubt them!
There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed. . . To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life. . . One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.