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“What is your end goal? The collection and analysis of gender, sex and sexuality data is not an objective in itself, nor is the ambition to gather ‘good data’ or fix the numbers. While paying attention to the potential for methods to misrepresent or exclude, such as strategic essentialism, ensure that data about LGBTQ people is ultimately used to construct a social world that values and improves LGBTQ lives.”

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Book:Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

“Do your methods present an authentic account of LGBTQ lives? Rather than adopt methods that promise a tidy dataset, recognize that data about identity characteristics is leaky, pluralistic and can change over time. A queer approach involves the use of innovative collection and analysis methods, such as multiple response options and the provision of open-text boxes, to produce a more authentic reflection of lives and experiences.”

Activism Data Lgbtq Data Analysis

Book:Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

“Who makes decisions about data that impact LGBTQ people? Decisions that disproportionately affect LGBTQ communities should be made by LGBTQ people. Where this is not practical, or there is a risk of overburdening a small number of people, decision-makers need queer data competence and the ability to recuse themselves when deliberations stretch beyond their capabilities. Use these instances to make space for people with knowledge and experience of the issues under discussion.”

Activism Data Lgbtq Data Analysis

Book:Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

“Does your project create more good than harm? And for whom? Assess what your project intends to achieve and its potential to cause harm; only continue when the potential benefits outweigh the potential dangers. Disaggregate the differential impacts among LGBTQ people to ensure that the project does not only benefit the least marginalized individuals, for whom sexual orientation is the only characteristics that excludes them from full inclusion.”

Activism Data Lgbtq Data Analysis

Book:Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

Source: Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

“Data must be used to tell the truth, not to call to action, no matter how noble the intentions.”

Truth Science Numbers Activism Data Statistics

Book:Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.”

States Facts Use Political Social Leader Honest Security Figures Judging Citizens Data Being Honest Social Security Political Leaders Forthcoming

Author:Grace Napolitano

“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.”

Thinking Trying Important Body Term Can Do Space Figures Behavior Unique Bones Data Preserves Muscles Measuring Density

Author:John L. Phillips

“I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.”

Natural Data Definite Propositions Natural Science

Author:Michael Polanyi

“I was shocked to find that there were actually climate scientists who wouldn't share the raw data, but would only share their conclusions in summary graphs that were used to prove their various theories about planet warming. In fact I began to smell something really bad, and the worse that smell got, the deeper I looked.”

Facts Used Share Planets Theory Prove Scientist Climate Various Deeper Smell Conclusion Data Shocked Summary Graphs

Author:Burt Rutan

“There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.”

Trying Littles Easy Bits Industry Amount Little Bit Picks Sells Enormous Bunch Tendencies Data Bias Cherries

Author:Burt Rutan

“When an idea comes, spend silent time with it. Remember Keats's idea of Negative Capability and Kipling's advice to "drift, wait and obey". Along with your gathering of hard data, allow yourself also to dream your idea into being.”

Writing Ideas Hard Dream Remember Waiting Advice Negative Silent Data Capability Gathering Kipling

Author:Rose Tremain

“We can look back through ice-core data and see over 800,000 years, relationships between carbon dioxide and the temperature of the world. So those people who deny the importance of climate change are just wasting their time. They're also being diversionary because if we don't act the risks are enormous.”

People Ifs World Years Looks Risk Importance Climate Climate Change Deny Core Enormous Ice Data Carbon Temperature Carbon Dioxide

Author:Nicholas Stern

“I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.”

Real Body Wanted Felt Myth Glad Data Clock Biological Clock

Author:Lili Taylor

“I think audiences ultimately want something new. I think the business model for a franchise is such that it's very low risk because you have data and studios love data.”

Thinking Want Audience Risk Models Lows Studios Data Something New Want Something Business Models

Author:Gore Verbinski

“I think that the default for collecting any kind of personal data should be opt-in consent.”

Thinking Should Kind Data Consent Collecting Default

Author:Al Franken

“E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.”

People Happens Happened Internet Pure Access Data Dependent Mail Roof Email Mobile Utilization Broadband Internet Access

Author:Randall L. Stephenson

“More data beats clever algorithms, but better data beats more data.”

Beats Clever Data Algorithms

Author:Peter Norvig

“Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.”

Source: Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

“The data don't lie: a Chicago street prostitute is more likely to have sex with a cop than to be arrested by one.”

Lying Sex Streets Data Chicago Cop Arrested Don't Lie

Author:Steven Levitt

“I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.”

People Thinking Knows Should Political Order Support Know How Politician Data Experts Agendas Political Agendas

Author:Seth Gordon

“So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.”

Important Moving Company Integrity Elements Connections Strategy Data Paradigm Validity

Author:John W. Thompson

“So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.”

Art States Information Products Bases Response Data Automation

Author:John W. Thompson

“One of the applications of Big Data is giving people the facts, and getting them to understand that their own decision-making is not perfect. And that in itself causes them to change their behavior”

People Giving Facts Bigs Causes Decision Perfect Behavior Intuition Data Decision Making Application Not Perfect

Author:Laszlo Bock

“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.”

Form Secret Records Tree Evolution Evidence Trade Extremes Data Branches Reasonable Persist Fossils Textbooks Inference Rarity Paleontology Creation Science Creation And Evolution

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.”

Facts Science Results Errors Absence Arise Data Reasoning

Book:On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged

Source: On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged

“In an automobile, if you think about the navigation system - of all the cars in the world, four out of five cars in the world if they have a navigation system have something from Nokia inside that car - the data, the platform, something. So we play a very strong role there.”

Ifs Thinking World Play Strong Roles Five Four Car Data Very Strong Platforms Automobile Navigation Nokia

Author:Stephen Elop

“I think Unix is a great system - especially for running data centers - because it is very mature, very reliable, very scalable. But when I want to go out and populate small devices, I think Java.”

Thinking Want Running Data Devices Mature Java Unix Data Centers

Author:Bill Joy

“Real anatomy exists in three dimensions, so any time you can view anatomical data in 3D, you'll have a much more accurate picture of the subject, ... Even multiple two-dimensional CT slices can never allow you to understand a subject's dental condition as quickly or as accurately as a quality 3D visualization.”

Two Real Three Views Quality Conditions Subjects Data Dimensions Accurate Multiple Visualization Anatomy Dental Three Dimensions

Author:Paul Brown

“Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.”

Men Values Modern Information Source Workers Data Excess Calories Modern Man

Author:Tim Ferriss

“There is the finest line between data and evidence.”

Lines Ability Evidence Data Finest

Author:Randall Dale Adams

“There is no need for a fear of losing control over who is accessing the network to hold back the productivity benefits of flexible working. By examining their access strategy, businesses can implement practices that will keep data secure and control access what and from where.”

Needs Practice Benefits Losing Strategy Access Productivity Secure Data Flexible Examining Losing Control

Author:Richard Jackson

“EMA research evidences strong and growing interest in leveraging log data across multiple infrastructure planning and operations management use cases. But to fully realize the potential complementary value of unstructured log data, it must be aligned and integrated with structured management data, and manual analysis must be replaced with automated approaches. By combining the RapidEngines capabilities with its existing solution, SevOne will be the first to truly integrate log data into an enterprise-class, carrier-grade performance management system.”

“IBM customers of any size can now rest assured that Double-Take, the most innovative, flexible and reliable data protection solution on the market, is proven to integrate easily into their IBM infrastructure.”

Solutions Size Customers Protection Data Proven Flexibility Assured Flexible Infrastructure Innovative Integrating Ibm Double Take

Author:Dan Jones

“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.”

Mind Sometimes Science Notes Stores Experiments Data Gross Collectors Forts Enquiry Unexplained Macabre

Book:Wild Talents

Source: Wild Talents

“War is ninety percent information.”

War Information Percent Data Ninety Analytics

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.”

Knows Inspirational Feels Persons Ends Hard Enough Asks Hours Answers Findings Data Interviews Guts Needles One Hour

Author:Steve Jobs

“The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.”

Book Whole Bigs Five Goes On Data Bangs Moses Psalms

Author:Arno Hintjens

“War is 90% information.”

War Information Data

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“A procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.”

Mean Data Excluded Forts Procession

Book:The Complete Books of Charles Fort

Source: The Complete Books of Charles Fort

“If you want access to the files of valuable information in a computer, you must understand how to retrieve the data by asking for it with the proper commands. Likewise, what enables you to get anything you want from your own personal databanks is the commanding power of asking questions.”

Ifs Want Motivational Information Computer Asking Valuable Access Command Data Files Asking Questions

Book:Awaken The Giant Within

Source: Awaken The Giant Within

“If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.”

Ifs Data Fashionable

Author:Peter Sagal

“Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.”

Ifs Humans Understanding Brain Share Research Scales Data Human Brain

Author:Tan Le

“You don't just wake up one day with dementia or Alzheimer's; these conditions are developmental. Even when a problem triggers the need to collect data, it's reviewed by a specialist and filed away. There's no central repository allowing information to be shared across a multitude of researchers worldwide.”

Needs Problem Conditions Information One Day Wake Up Data Allowing Multitudes Triggers Researchers Specialists Dementia Alzheimer Alzheimer's Developmental

Author:Tan Le

“We do not realize how deeply our starting assumptions affect the way we go about looking for and interpreting the data we collect. We should recognize that nonhuman organisms need not meet every new definition of human language, tool use, mind, or consciousness in order to have versions of their own that are worthy of serious study. We have set ourselves too much apart, grasping for definitions that will distinguish man from all other life on the planet. We must rejoin the great stream of life from whence we arose and strive to see within it the seeds of all we are and all we may become.”

Source: Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind

“PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations.”

Source: Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better

“I regret that my coauthors and I omitted statistically significant information in our 2004 article published in the journal Pediatrics. The omitted data suggested that African American males who received the MMR vaccine before age 36 months were at increased risk for autism. Decisions were made regarding which findings to report after the data were collected, and I believe that the final study protocol was not followed.”

Believe Made Age I Believe Decision Study Risk Information Regret Months Findings Males Finals Significant Data African American Reports Articles Autism Journal Vaccines I Regret Protocol

Author:William Thompson

“To no circumstance is the wide diffusion of error in the world more owing than to our habit of adopting conclusions from insufficiently established data. An indispensable preliminary, then, in every investigation, is to get at facts. Until these are arrived at, every opinion, theory, or system, however ingeniously framed, must necessarily rest upon an uncertain basis.”

World Facts Opinion Theory Habit Circumstances Bases Errors Wide Conclusion Data Investigation Uncertain Indispensable Framed Owing Adopting Diffusion

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.”

Shows Hate Results Research I Hate Conclusion Data Reviews Superstitions Peers Show Me Qualified Exaggeration Supposition Science Love Peer Review

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I think the actions taken by the (rate-setting) Federal Open Market Committee have been the appropriate actions. And I assume we will continue to take the appropriate actions, depending on what is happening with the data and the dynamics of the economy”

Thinking Has Beens Action Economy Taken Happenings Assuming Rate Setting Settings Data Appropriate Committees Dynamics

Author:Bill Vaughan

“To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.”

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