So what is the ulti­mate job? Accord­ing to Hal Var­ian, chief econ­o­mist at Google, it is being a sta­tis­ti­cian (see this inter­view)

Here he is on YouTube with a longer comment:

Sta­tis­tics — Dream Job of the next decade

From a keynote pre­sen­ta­tion to the 2008 Almaden Insti­tute — “Inno­vat­ing with Information”.

The full pre­sen­ta­tion is avail­able at http://​www​.almaden​.ibm​.com/​i​n​s​t​i​t​u​t​e​/​a​g​e​n​d​a​.​shtml

Hal Var­ian makes the argu­ment that with data in huge sup­ply and sta­tis­ti­cians in short sup­ply, being a sta­tis­ti­cian has to be the ‘really sexy job for the 2010s’.

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