Google's chief economist was recently quoted as saying "The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians… The ability to take data-to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract value from it, to visualize it, to communicate it-that’s going to be a hugely important skill." I'll leave you for the weekend with this ego-boosting article relating how our skill set as statisticians is a hot commodity in the real world.
Dataspora Blog: The three sexy skills of data geeks
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