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Statistics and data science degrees: Overhyped or the real deal?

  • Written by P. Richard Hahn, Associate Professor of Statistics, Arizona State University
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“Data science” is hot right now. The number of undergraduate degrees in statistics has tripled in the past decade, and as a statistics professor, I can tell you that it isn’t because freshmen love statistics.

Way back in 2009, economist Hal Varian of Google dubbed...

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