"The ability to take data, to be able to understand it, to process it, to extract values from it, to visualize it and to communicate it -- that is going to be a hugely important skill of the next decades, not only at the professional level but even at the education level." -- Hal Varian of Google
Good news for all up-and-coming statistics geeks, "it is now OK to self-identify as a statistician"! Yes, yet another article touting that "big data," and thus statistics, is where it's at these days for those who wish to be part of the new sought-after job-seekers:
http://tinyurl.com/m4accko
[...in other matters, my latest post over at MathTango wonders about the authenticity of 'autistic savant' Daniel Tammet: http://mathtango.blogspot.com/2013/08/numbers-mnemonism-savantism-oh-my.html ]
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