6 Quotes About Data Mining

Think big and do the impossible! These Data-Mining quotes will give you all the motivation you need to make your dreams a reality. Whether it’s breaking an existing record, winning a new title or challenging an old record, we’ve got inspiration for you that will help you go even further than ever before.

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Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. Douglas Rushkoff
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You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting. E.a. Bucchianeri
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To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data. Stephen Few
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Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal. Stephen Few
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Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized. Stephen Few