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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.)