For those who can make sense of the explosion of data, there are job opportunities in fields as diverse as crime, retail and dating.
Veteran data analysts tell of friends who were long bored by discussions of their work but now are suddenly curious. “Moneyball” helped, they say, but things have gone way beyond that. “The culture has changed,” says Andrew Gelman, a statistician and political scientist at Columbia University. “There is this idea that numbers and statistics are interesting and fun. It’s cool now.”
Just to be clear, people I meet are still bored by discussions of my work. Now I have confirmation that it’s just me.
