Analyzing Data Quotes

I missed the basic curiosity of being in the lab.

The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.

I think by paying attention to the feedback that you get on Yelp, you can very quickly integrate it into your business... The really savvy folks out there, they don't necessarily take anything negative personally, but use it as constructive feedback and adjust their business.

If you receive a whole string of bad reviews, you have to say, 'O.K., maybe there's something here we should pay attention to.'

I will never speculate on data. I always need to see data.

Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.

I've always loved investigations.

I get really into research. I know people say that, but I'm really into research.

I'm big on research.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

I hate charts. I just despise 'em.

You can have all the information you want in the world. If you don't have the people raising questions and looking beneath the surface, and people being paid to do this, you're not going to find the answers.

Let us gather facts in order to get ourselves thinking.

That's why investigations are so important, to drill down and to connect those dots and to get the facts. What we have is a lot of smoke that causes us to want to know more about what has happened.

I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions.

I wanted to be a police detective. In my work, particularly in documentaries, I am obsessed with finding things out, seeking ever-new facts and perspectives - each project can involve years of research.

Data is very important, but you have to be good at reading the data in an emotional way. If you look at a selling report, there's an emotional trend to what's selling.

I love doing research. It's like cheating, but with permission.

I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.

You have to put together bits and pieces of information before you can draw overall conclusions.

You do as much research as you can for any project.

I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean.

We have to do what I would call anomalies: we have to look for strange things that show up once in a while. They don't show up all the time. We have to be scanning the horizon, and doing that, once in a while something will show up that makes a lot of sense, and then you act on it.