{"id":1302,"date":"2010-02-03T20:55:17","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2010-02-03T20:55:17","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:55:17","slug":"statistics-statistics-location-and-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=1302","title":{"rendered":"Statistics, statistics, location, and statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

SKILLS FOR AN INCREASINGLY MEASURABLE WORLD<\/p>\n

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In the movie The Graduate, the advice given to a young Dustin Hoffman was “plastics”. Today, another word is being touted as the key to the kingdom: statistics.<\/p>\n

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Decision Science News found the New York Times article For Today\u2019s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics<\/a> to be an inspiration. It especially liked:<\/p>\n

“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. “And I\u2019m not kidding.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article discusses the role of statisticians at Google. It mentions the $1,000,000 Netflix prize, recently won by a team including Yahoo! Research scientist Yehuda Koren<\/a>, as well as applications like meme tracking<\/a> and social network analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SKILLS FOR AN INCREASINGLY MEASURABLE WORLD In the movie The Graduate, the advice given to a young Dustin Hoffman was “plastics”. Today, another word is being touted as the key to the kingdom: statistics. Decision Science News found the New York Times article For Today\u2019s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics to be an inspiration. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-l0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}