Data Quotations | Page 7

The problem with the November employment numbers is hiring for the holiday season. It's hard to get a gauge of what it's going to be. They do a seasonal adjustment to the number to account for that, but the seasonal adjustment causes wider swings. And this year Thanksgiving came later in the month, so hiring might have started after the November data was collected.

There are a lot of data warehousing folks without any understanding of the patterns. It doesn't get taught in business schools.

Vendors are moving away from centralized, agent-based technologies to real-time data collection.

Ultimately, we need to shift from a reactive to a proactive and event-based data protection, something that CDP helps to start to facilitate,

U.K. May PPI data are unlikely to move markets markedly, in spite of the large rise in input prices, since this was largely due to the rebound in oil prices.

U.K. data has been weaker than expected, but investors don't believe this will be enough to persuade the bank to cut rates. This leaves gilts vulnerable.

Until data are available from randomized clinical trials, the patient's decision is the right decision -- support it.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

Demagoguery beats data in making public policy.

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.