Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to septemberlilac and phoenixpdx!!!! Have a great one, ladies!!

Done yesterday (20090601)

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A pretty good day. Walked for nearly an hour (feeling a little stiff from the weekend after not having walked much for weeks). And I got in an hour and a half or so of just plain quiet snuggle in bed: the original plan had been for me to hold Colleen until she went to sleep, and then get up and work on something in the office. About midnight we just kissed and went to sleep.

The three sexy skills of Data Geeks

The Three Sexy Skills of Data Geeks : Dataspora Blog

Hal Varian, Google’s Chief Economist, was interviewed a few months ago, and said the following in the McKinsey Quarterly:
“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.”

Just to be specific, the three sexy skills are: Statistics (Studying), Data Munging (Suffering), and Visualization (Storytelling).

Well worth a read. (Waves at cflute.)