QUOTES ON STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS
QUOTES ON STATISTICS & DATA ANALYSIS
We have compiled the 60 most brilliant and famous quotes on Statistics & Data Analysis & Data Science in this article!
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Quotes on Statistics and Data Analysis
“Data beats emotions.”
Sean Rad
“Above all else show the data.”
Edward Rolf Tufte
“Data that is loved tends to survive.”
Kurt Bollacker Quote
“Statistics is the grammar of Science.”
Karl Pearson
“Statistics are the heart of democracy.”
Simeon Strunsky
“All statistics have outliers.”
Nenia Campbell
“The most valuable commodity I know of is information.”
Gordon Gekko
“Data really powers everything that we do.”
Jeff Weiner
“If You Torture the Data Long Enough, It Will Confess”
Ronald Coase
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable”
Mark Twain
“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”
William Edwards Deming
“In God we trust; all others must bring data”
William Edwards Deming
“Data will talk to you, If you’re willing to listen to it”
Jim Bergeson
“99% of all statistics only tell us 49% of the story.”
Ron DeLegge II
“We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.”
Rutherford David Rogers
“Individuals vary, but percentages remain constant.”
Sherlock Holmes
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
Niels Bohr
“Data! Data! Data! I can’t make bricks without clay.”
Sherlock Holmes
“Those who ignore statistics are condemned to reinvent it.”
Bradley Efron
“The goal is to turn data into information, and information into insight.”
Carly Fiorina
“Statistics can be made to prove anything — even the truth.”
Unknown author
“Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.”
Tim Berners-Lee
“You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.”
Daniel Keys Moran
“All the statistics in the world can’t measure the warmth of a smile.”
Chris hart
“Data is the sword of the 21st century, those who wield it well, the Samurai.”
Jonathan Rosenberg
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.”
Tim O’Reilly
“The democratization of data means that those who can analyze it well will win.”
Jonathan Rosenberg
“Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.”
George E. P. Box
“Statistics real contribution to society is primarily moral, not technical.”
Max Morris
“People can come up with statistics to prove anything — forty percent of all people know that.”
Homer Simpson
“I’m a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.”
Gus O’Donnell
“Information is the oil of the 21st century, and analytics is the combustion engine.”
Peter Sondergaard
“The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific learning process.”
George E. P. Box
“If we have data, let’s look at the data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”
Jim Barksdale
“The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability.”
Pierre-Simon Laplace
“All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.”
George E. P. Box
“Errors Using Inadequate Data are Much Less Than Those Using no Data at All.”
Charles Babbage
“Do not put your faith in what statistics say until you have carefully considered what they do not say.”
William Watt
“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.”
Milton Friedman
“I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians.”
Hal Varian
“Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a voice.”
Stephen Few
“Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination.”
Andrew Lang
“Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.”
Marilyn Vos Savant
“Statistics may be defined as a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.”
Wilson Allen Wallis
“While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”
Sherlock Holmes
“While nothing is more uncertain than a single life, nothing is more certain than the average duration of a thousand lives.”
Elizur Wright
“Most of the world will make decisions by either guessing or using their gut. They will be either lucky or wrong.”
Suhail Doshi
“But to understand God’s thoughts, she held we must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.”
Florence Nightingale
“Do not worry about your problems in mathematics. I assure you, my problems with mathematics are much greater than yours.”
Albert Einstein
“You can, for example, never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.”
Sherlock Holmes
“A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.”
M. J. Moroney
“Statistics. The science that says if I ate a whole chicken and you didn’t eat any, then each of us ate half a chicken.
Dino “Pitigrilli” Segrè
“There is no data that can be displayed in a pie chart, that cannot be displayed BETTER in some other type of chart.”
John Tukey
“Data are just summaries of thousands of stories – tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.”
Chip & Dan Heath
“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.”
Aaron Koblin
“A knowledge of statistics is like a knowledge of foreign languages or of algebra; it may prove of use at any time under any circumstances.”
Arthur Lyon Bowley
“There’s a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That’s possibly true but also possibly a world without joy.”
Amanda Cox
“One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.”
Thomas Sowell
“It is remarkable that science, which originated in the consideration of games of chance, should have become the most important object of human knowledge.”
Pierre Simon Laplace
“To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.”
Ronald Fisher
