A Quote by Hilary Mason

The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions. — © Hilary Mason
The job of the data scientist is to ask the right questions.
The biggest challenge in big data today is asking the right questions of data. There are so many questions to ask that you don't have the time to ask them all, so it doesn't even make sense to think about where to start your analysis.
Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.
Companies are getting bitten by hiring a data scientist who isn't really a data scientist.
When people ask me what philosophy is, I say philosophy is what you do when you don't know what the right questions are yet. Once you get the questions right, then you go answer them, and that's typically not philosophy, that's one science or another. Anywhere in life where you find that people aren't quite sure what the right questions to ask are, what they're doing, then, is philosophy.
One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.
Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?
A data scientist is that unique blend of skills that can both unlock the insights of data and tell a fantastic story via the data.
but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.
Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.
Philosophers often think all scientists must be scientific realists. If you ask a simple question like "Are electrons real?" the answer will be "Yes". But if your questions are less superficial, for example whether some well-known scientist was a good scientist. Then, they had insisted that only empirical criteria matter and that they actually did not believe in the reality of sub-atomic entities. Ask "If that turned out to be true, would you still say they were good scientists?" The answer would reveal something about how they themselves understood what it is to be a scientist.
Questions are like gifts - it's the thought behind them that the receiver really feels. We have to know the receiver to give the right gift and to ask the right question. Generic gifts and questions are all right, but personal gifts and questions feel better.
Art can end up answering questions or asking questions. But when it's not connected to actual movements, it doesn't ask the right questions.
If you don't ask the right questions, you don't get the right answers. A question asked in the right way often points to its own answer. Asking questions is the ABC of diagnosis. Only the inquiring mind solves problems.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
In terms of asking questions, I plead guilty. I ask a hell of a lot of questions. That's my job.
Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.
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