While data can only tell you what has happened in the past, it can in some ways give you a sense of what might be of interest to an audience in the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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.
The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.
I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.
The answers to today's most important scientific, business, and social problems lie in data.
I'm kind of fascinated by this idea that we can surround ourselves with information: we can just pile up data after data after data and arm ourselves with facts and yet still not be able to answer the questions that we have.
Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories.
Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.