Data science for business: what you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking

摘要

As Hal Varian, Google's renowned chief economist, says, (!)blockquote(?)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.(!)/blockquote(?) This is precisely the domain of data mining or, using the current catchphrase, data science.