The fact is that data are worth a lot of money.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Data is cost. It takes money to create data, store it, clean it, and throw resources at it to learn anything from it.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
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 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.
If your data is out there earning money for somebody, you should have a say in it.
It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.
Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
I think you can have a ridiculously enormous and complex data set, but if you have the right tools and methodology then it's not a problem.
There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
I'm not for the mass collection of data. I go the other way.