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"Statisticians are engaged in an exhausting but exhilarating struggle with | |||
the biggest challenge that philosophy makes to science: how do we | |||
translate information into knowledge? ... | |||
If you think that statistics has nothing | |||
to say about what you do or how you could do it better, then you are | |||
either wrong or in need of a more interesting job."<br> | |||
--Stephen Senn, ''Dicing With Death'' | |||
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Suggested by Paul Alper | |||
==Forsooth== | ==Forsooth== | ||
Revision as of 20:03, 10 March 2010
Quotations
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
--Oscar Wilde
Quoted in the Economist article on data cited below.
"Statisticians are engaged in an exhausting but exhilarating struggle with the biggest challenge that philosophy makes to science: how do we translate information into knowledge? ... If you think that statistics has nothing to say about what you do or how you could do it better, then you are either wrong or in need of a more interesting job."
--Stephen Senn, Dicing With Death
Suggested by Paul Alper
Forsooth
Too much data?
All too much: Monstrous amounts of data
The Economist, 25 February 2010
A special report on managing data. To be continued...