“The ability to integrate historical data with newer sources of information to predict market trends and rapidly implement strategies is becoming the primary differentiator.” Gabriel Lowy ( January 22, 2015 )

“The imminent danger with Artificial Intelligence has nothing to do with machines becoming too intelligent. It has to do with machines inheriting the stupidity of people.” Mikko ( 18.02.2019 10:28 )

“Technology is like exercise equipment in that buying the fanciest equipment won’t get you in shape unless you take advantage of it.” Daniel Tunkelang

“The best technology tools will be those that empower subject matter experts to quickly apply intuitive reasoning.” Mike Urbonas ( April 11, 2015 )

“… even five years ago people would not label themselves as geeks because it was stigmatizing. The tide has turned and we are beginning to see a groundswell certainly among undergraduates who are okay identifying themselves as data geeks.” Jeff Stanton ( 2014 )

“Every good chemist had to be a competent lab technician. Similarly, it is hard to imagine a working data scientist who is not proficient with certain sorts of software tools.” Foster Provost & Tom Fawcett ( 2014 )

“Machine learning algorithms frequently require careful tuning of model hyperparameters, regularization terms, and optimization parameters. Unfortunately, this tuning is often a ‘black art’ that requires expert experience, unwritten rules of thumb, or sometimes brute-force search.” Jasper Snoek, Hugo Larochelle and Ryan P. Adams ( 29 Aug 2012 )

“God not only plays dice. He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.” Stephen William Hawking

“If you can agree with this sentence: “I have some data that makes sense to represent in a tabular like structure, and I want to do some cool statistics stuff with it” R is definitely a good choice.” Pete Werner ( March 14, 2015 )

“The key to a successful big data project isn’t the bigness of the data or the slickness of the dashboard a given tool provides. It’s the quality of the selection and analysis of the data. Unfortunately, in many cases, those who use the big data tools may not even be aware of the underlying logic of the data selection and analysis.” Patrick Marshall ( 08.07.2014 )