“Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.”
Stephen Few“Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.”
Stephen Few“Signals always point to something. In this sense, a signal is not a thing but a relationship. Data becomes useful knowledge of something that matters when it builds a bridge between a question and an answer. This connection is the signal.”
Stephen Few, Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise“To find signals in data, we must learn to reduce the noise - not just the noise that resides in the data, but also the noise that resides in us. It is nearly impossible for noisy minds to perceive anything but noise in data.”
Stephen Few, Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise