“There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every two days.”
“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.”
“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories—tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.”
“Data scientist: Person who is better at statistics than any software engineer and better at software engineering than any statistician.”
“Data scientist: The person who is better at explaining the business implications of analytical results than any scientist, and better at the analytical science than any MBA.”
“Data science is all about asking interesting questions based on the data you have—or often the data you don’t have.”
“We are surrounded by data, but starved for insights.”
“‘Possessed’ is probably the right word. I often tell people, ‘I don’t want to necessarily be a data scientist. You just kind of are a data scientist. You just can’t help but look at that data set and go, ‘I feel like I need to look deeper. I feel like that’s not the right fit.’”
