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On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>> Data (science) is after all the hot subject
>> A programmer moving into that field typically starts with python
>> A statistician typically starts R
>
> There aren't THAT many statisticians out there, compared to programmers.

Would writing a script to figure out whether there are more
statisticians or programmers be a statistician's job or a
programmer's?

ChrisA