“Big data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it…”—Dan Ariely
“I’m a data janitor. That’s the sexiest job of the 21st century. It’s very flattering, but it’s also a little baffling”–Josh Wills, a senior director of data science at Cloudera
“Given enough data, everything is statistically significant”–Douglas Merrill
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