Jobs for Data Scientists Explode Across The Market - NYTimes.com

Data scientist positions are outpacing demand growth for statisticians- 'data scientists' are typically more well rounded in terms of theoretical and applied statistical knowledge, programming & data hacking skills, and industry subject matter as opposed to traditional statisticians.

http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2011/07/20/20readwriteweb-jobs-for-data-scientists-explode-across-the-91949.html

Basic Demographics of #AgChat Facebook Group Members

Created using R and ‘members to .csv’ Facebook Ap
March 9, 2010


Breakdown by Gender (Click to Enlarge)



Representation by City and State

Augusta , Illinois
Chicago , Illinois
Indianapolis, Indiana
Hampton , Iowa
Miltonvale, Kansas
Louisville , Kentucky
Caneyville, Kentucky
Frankfort , Kentucky
Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)
Saginaw , Michigan
Deckerville, Michigan
Springfield , Missouri
Tecumseh, Oklahoma
Portland, Oregon
Fredrikstad , Ostfold (Norway)
Dallas ,Texas
Selah , Washington
Union West , Virginia

# of Members by State (Click to Enlarge)



Representation By Country (Click to Enlarge)
(Canada, Norway & the U.S.)



Notes:
Note:This data is for demonstration purposes only. There were actually 643 members of the #AgChat Facebook group as of this date, but the ‘members to .csv’ ap limits data retrieval to 499 observations, so this represents only a sampling of actual members. Observations are also omitted for missing values for variables in each respective analysis.For instance, only 24 observations of the available 499 had hometown data listed.

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