Hey, what's up?
John Sonmez here from simpleprogrammer.com.
Today we're going to be talking about statistics
and data analysis.
I got a question from Uno.
That's a pretty damn cool name, by the way.
He says, "I'm considering going to university
next year and I saw a program here in Sweden
which is Statistics and Data Analyst.
I assume it's in some way, shape, or form
a data science program.
Do you think it would be a good investment
for the future?
Will companies need me in the future?
It's not too much programming, but involves
programming in SAS, R and Python and it involves
a lot of statistics."
I have to say I would be 100% certain that
the need for analyzing data will not go away
in the recent future and it will only increase.
Think about it this way, the amount of data
that is being stored, the amount of data that
we're generating on a daily basis is increasing
exponentially every single year.
It's crazy.
If you look at the chart, I don't have the
chart in front of me, but I was reading a
book, I did a review on it called, The Inevitable.
If you want some good statistics he's got
the statistics compiled for you and he talks
about this idea of like how much data that
is just rapidly being—how fast that we're
collecting more and more data.
I think this is good.
I think this is something that is going to
just be growing.
I think it's going to grow more than software
development itself.
Because you've got to think about it this
way is that what good is all this data if
we can't get information from it, if we can't
analyze that data.
It used to be the fact that we didn't have
enough data and so the analysis of data was
simple.
It was like, "Ah, am I getting more website
visitors?
Yes, I am."
But now it's like, "Well, look at the demographics
information on this.
We've got so much data points.
We've got the demographics.
We've got the time of day, the average cost
of the sale, what they buy from other companies,
where they live," all this kind of information
and we can crunch a lot of numbers together
in order to figure out stuff.
The people that are really going to be valuable,
I think, in the future are going to be the
people that can analyze this data and make
sense of it so that we can actually take action
on it.
That's going to be a hard job.
Learning stuff like R, I know that there's
a few people in my community that are really
big on R which is basically a statistic, a
scientific language for data analysis, it's
growing.
It's a growing field, I can tell you.
I would definitely—if this is something
that interests you I would not be worried
at all about the future here and I would definitely
go into this.
Yeah, that's all I got to say about that.
Good luck with it.
Let me know what you think about this if you
are in the field already, it would be good
to get your advice since I'm not in the data
analysis field, but it's always good to hear
some encouraging words about the industry.
I'm sure that you've got one.
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