Quotable Quotes: Big Data

May 29, 2015 1 Min Read
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Big Data Quotes Curated for You

Big data is changing the way we work. Together with Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data is the new game in town. What do you know about big data? How are you involved in big data? Big data will be something that will affect everyone. We are all going to be part of this new game in town. Are you ready to embrace big data? How prepared are you for big data? Below we have some great big data quotes for you to consume. These big data quotes have been specially curated for you. Have fun and be inspired.

“Information (big data) is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.” –  Peter Sondergaard

“There is a magic in graphs. The profile of a curve reveals in a flash a whole situation – the life history of an epidemic, a panic, or an era of prosperity. The curve informs the mind, awakens the imagination, convinces.” Henry D. Hubbard


“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.” – Daniel Keys Moran


“Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.” Geoffrey Moore


“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.” Ronald Coase


“Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers.” – Pat Gelsinger


“Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.” – Ronald Coase
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“Big data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within 18 months or risk being left in the dust.” – By Ginni Rometty


“Consumer data will be the biggest differentiator in the next two to three years. Whoever unlocks the reams of data and uses it strategically will win.” – By Angela Ahrendts

(note - Angela Ahrendts recently spoke at the Global Leadership Summit. If you would like to attend the GLS, register here

“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories – tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.” – Chip and Dan Heath




Read this article - Leveraging Big Data

“The world is one big data problem.” – Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative


“Big data will replace the need for 80% of all doctors” – Vinod Khosla, Co-founder of Sun Microsystems


"Data powers everything at Leaderonomics Digital" - Sashe Kanapathi, COO Leaderonomics Digital


“It’s easy to lie with statistics. It’s hard to tell the truth without statistics.” – By Andrejs Dunkels


There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days.” – Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google
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