Data Handling Quotes

The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.

They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.

The thing on cyber-security. Yes, it was - every government employee goes through this training. You do hear at corporations, as well. In addition, everybody that works at the State Department that has a clearance has to sign a document that says that they got a briefing on how to handle classified info. Hillary Clinton is the secretary of state. She makes a terrible, reckless decision, and it almost ruined her candidacy.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

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

Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.

Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

Facebook is by far the largest of these social networking sites, and starting with its ill-fated Beacon service, privacy concerns have more than once been raised about how the ubiquitous social networking site handles its user data.

The computer, being a mechanical moron, can handle only quantifiable data.

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

If 300 million people were to offer up the details of their private lives, you would need to hire another 300 million people just to keep up.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Government and businesses cannot function without enormous amounts of data, and many people have to have access to that data.

Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it.

The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed to do this, with data-handling or 'hypothesis-formulating' ability of unknown character and complexity.

I'm going to say something rather controversial. Big data, as people understand it today, is just a bigger version of small data. Fundamentally, what we're doing with data has not changed; there's just more of it.

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

Some people hate the very name of statistics, but I find them full of beauty and interest. Whenever they are not brutalized, but delicately handled by the higher methods, and are warily interpreted, their power of dealing with complicated phenomena is extraordinary. They are the only tools by which an opening can be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.

I think the digital camera would record that information too fast for me.

I don't just throw out microwave records.

Secretary Hillary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department. She also used numerous mobile devices to send and to read email on that personal domain.

The Internet was invented in an age when our entire approach to regulation has been extremely lax, and so you'd think, 'OK, there might be a law on the books that governs how these corporations can handle our data.'

Not only can consumers handle their personal genetic information, but they are getting genomically oriented and anchored about such data.

Most importantly I never sent classified material on my email and I never received any that was marked classified.