The plural of anecdote is not data.
Marc BekoffTag: science scientific-method evidence data anecdote
Scientists do not collect data randomly and utterly comprehensively. The data they collect are only those that they consider *relevant* to some hypothesis or theory.
James David Lewis-WilliamsTag: science theory hypothesis data
Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items.
-- From The Devil's DP Dictionary
Tag: humor technology computers definition computer data database
You know something is wrong when the government declares opening someone else’s mail is a felony but your internet activity is fair game for data collecting.
E.A. BucchianeriTag: internet government control crime privacy irony mail ironic government-programs sad-but-true spying data gadfly conspiracies data-mining internet-privacy data-collecting felonies
We have seen segments of our Government, in their attitudes and action, adopt tactics unworthy of a democracy, and occasionally reminiscent of totalitarian regimes. We have seen a consistent pattern in which programs initiated with limited goals, such as preventing criminal violence or identifying foreign spies, were expanded to what witnesses characterized as "vacuum cleaners", sweeping in information about lawful activities of American citizens. The tendency of intelligence activities to expand beyond their initial scope is a theme which runs through every aspect of our investigative findings. Intelligence collection programs naturally generate ever-increasing demands for new data. And once intelligence has been collected, there are strong pressures to use it against the target.
Church CommitteeTag: secrecy predictions surveillance abuse-of-power data national-security prescience
In God we trust. All others [must] have data. - Bernard Fisher
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