A commentor on LinkedIn asked...
General Assemb.ly "Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” Do you agree with Harvard Business Review? ➜ http://ga.co/p0Y
My thought on the subject is...
If it is coming out of Harvard, it has to be legit. The American culture is founded upon scientific rigor. How else can the economy and the system continue, if the data that defines it could ever be called into question?
Have no fear! Key values can be infinitely correlated and validated, proving, or perhaps more importantly, disproving any potential hypotheses. Such as hypotheses that call into question the sustainability of unlimited capital expansion, or any other such weighty 21st century topics, such as marketing to tweens via increasingly disparate digital channels, controlled by fewer and fewer ever merging corporate entities.
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At least, that is as much as LinkedIn could handle before my thoughts overflowed the buffer.
Just ask the NSA!
That is what there was not enough room to type.
Those guys are all about data science. Petabytes of the stuff, contextually categorized and computationally analyzed
