だったらうれしい

Hal Varian, chief economist of google and professor of information sciences, business, and economics at the University of California at Berkeley, says the following.


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, not only at the professional level but even at the educational level for elementary school kids, for high school kids, for college kids. Because now we really do have essentially free and ubiquitous data. So the complimentary scarce factor is the ability to understand that data and extract value from it.

http://flowingdata.com/2009/02/25/googles-chief-economist-hal-varian-on-statistics-and-data/


私は次の10年で最も魅力的(seyx)な職業は統計家(とか統計屋)だと言い続けてきた。私が冗談を言っていると大抵の人は思うかもしれないが、果たして誰が、コンピュータ・エンジニアが90年代で最も魅力的な職業だと言い当てられたかい?
以下略。訳すのが面倒になった。


あと2年後にそうなってるとうれしい。いや、就職活動的にはあと1年後か?流石に1年じゃ時間は足りないか。
Google先生(とかMSとかコンピュータ系企業)の考える統計学ってーのは、FAとかSEMとかの因果探索系と言うよりもむしろ、PCAとかSVMなんかの機械学習に近い範疇のものじゃないかと思うんだけどどうなんだろうか。それとBayes。ベイズ統計学の研究ではMicrosoftが有名とか何とか聞いてほーと思ったよ。