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Last week, Sam explored trends in the technology jobs market, suggesting that significant opportunities only reveal themselves when examining both the available jobs and the underlying trends in demand for skills. Coincidentally, on the same day that Sam’s piece was published, The New York Times suggested that “the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians.”
The burgeoning interest in R demonstrates that there’s demand for analytics to solve real, business-critical problems in a broad spectrum of companies and roles, and that some of the incumbent analytics offerings, in particular SAS and SPSS, don’t sufficiently meet the growing need for analytics in many major companies. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fspotfire.tibco.com%2Fcommunity%2Fblogs%2Fenterpriseanalytics%2Farchive%2F2009%2F01%2F08%2Fanalytics-in-the-nyt.aspx
Looks at contemporary American culture through austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption)