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In a 2008 interview, Google’s chief economist, Hal Varian, remarked:
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I’m joking, but who would’ve guessed that computer engineers would’ve been the sexy job of the 1990s? 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 in the next decades…1
Perhaps the very least attractive aspect of the “sexy job” is the work involved in assembling, reconciling, tidying, cleaning, and otherwise preparing data from various sources before the serious work of processing, extracting value, visualizing, and communicating. ...
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