One thing ImageNet changed in the field of AI is suddenly people realized the thankless work of making a dataset was at the core of AI research.
Rob Engle and I are concerned with extracting useful implications from economic data, and so the properties of the data are of particular importance.
Here's why most campaigns get data wrong. They treat it as an afterthought and they treat it as sort of a logistic.
Data is great, but strategy is better
Data is the next Intel Inside.
Information about the package is as important as the package itself.
Information is a difference that makes a difference.
Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
Good data is hard to find. Hard data is good to find.
Data is the most valuable asset in the world.
Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.
If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.
That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.
The fact that radio is so hopeless at delivering data makes it an uncluttered medium, offering the basic story without the detailed trappings. But it does mean that if data is important, radio is probably not your place.
Inclusiveness isn't what I want to push back against. The obsession with facts is.
