This deck contains the 10 best Big Data Quotes put together by Bernard Marr, Author of Big Data: Using SMART Big Data, Analytics and Metrics To Make Better Decisions and Improve Performance http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118965833,descCd-buy.html

1. BIG Data
The 10 Best Quotes

2. “Big data is at the
foundation of all the
megatrends that are
happening today, from social
to mobile to cloud to
gaming.”
Chris Lynch, Vertica Systems

3. “Big data is not
about the data”
Gary King, Harvard University, making the point
that while data is plentiful and easy to collect,
the real value is in the analytics

4. “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, of Google, said in 2010

5. “Information is the oil of
the 21st century, and
analytics is the combustion
engine.”
Peter Sondergaard, Gartner Research

6. “I keep saying that the
sexy job in the next 10
years will be statisticians,
and I’m not kidding”
Hal Varian, Google

7. “You can have data
without information, but
you cannot have
information without
data.”
Daniel Keys Moran, computer programmer
and science fiction author

8. “Hiding within those
mounds of data is
knowledge that could
change the life of a patient,
or change the world.”
Atul Butte, Stanford School of Medicine

9. “Errors using inadequate
data are much less than
those using no data at
all.”
Charles Babbage, inventor and
mathematician

10. “To call in the statistician after
the experiment is done may be
no more than asking him to
perform a post-mortem – he
may be able to say what the
experiment died of.”
Ronald Fisher, biologist,
geneticist and statistician

11. “Without big data, you
are blind and deaf in the
middle of a freeway”
Geoffrey Moore, management consultant
and theorist