David McCandless Quotes

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

If we just focus on stats, we're gonna eventually not have them.

There's been the emergence of a philosophy that big data is all you need. We would suggest that, actually, numbers don't speak for themselves.

Numbers can't speak for themselves, and data sets - no matter their scale - are still objects of human design.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.

We created the ability for people to insert enterprise or personal data.

Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

You and I are streaming data engines.

There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

I have been doing technology foresight for a number of years now on the level of scenario design, primarily. I want to become more rigorous with research methodology and statistical methods. I want to shift from creating clever SF scenarios to being a professional forecaster able to make rigorous predictions.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

On average, people should be more skeptical when they see numbers. They should be more willing to play around with the data themselves.

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as an end in itself.

Collect it all!

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.