Careers in statistics
“[The Bureau of Labor Statistics] projects that statistics jobs will grow 27% from 2012 to 2022, putting the profession in the “much faster than the average for all occupations” growth category. The bureau puts statisticians’ median annual salary in 2012 at $75,560.
In addition to having a different quote from Hal Varian than the one you were expecting, they talk to statisticians including Xihong Lin and Montse Fuentes.
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It is good to know that. But I guess ‘Statistics Jobs’ are not just ‘Statistics’. It also includes things like Database modelling, Big data, data mining using variouse programming languages such as Java, Python etc…
Interestingly, i have seen some news saying the R skill requirement is put on the job ads more and more, but when employers say R skill, it mean R incorporating with Python, Java,Cpp etc…
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