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Statistics. The Hottest Career of the 21 st Century. What is statistics ?. It’s not what you think it is. So, what is statistics?. Statistics is... T he science of learning from data It’s analyzing information It’s creating models to capture insights

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  1. Statistics The Hottest Career of the 21stCentury

  2. What is statistics? It’s not what you think it is.

  3. So, what is statistics? • Statistics is... • The science of learning from data • It’s analyzing information • It’s creating models to • capture insights • It’s solving complex problems

  4. So, what do statisticians do? • Statisticians... • Help companies make sense of the world • around us by analyzing data. • Use data to solve complex • problems, in fields like business, • medicine, public service • and more.

  5. Statisticians help manage the earth’s natural resources Fjallsjökullglacier in Iceland

  6. Statisticiansreduce disease and improve medicines Spiral strand of DNA

  7. Statisticians work for professional sports teams to make strategic draft picks Jarvis Hayes, Darius Songalia, Mark Madsen and RashadMcCants. Image source: Keith Allison

  8. Statisticians improve voter targeting and assess the success of government policies and programs President Barack Obama campaign rally in Urbandale, Iowa, 2012. Image source: White House

  9. Statisticians help protect human rights in developing countries Yezidichildren in an internally displaced person camp in Sharya, Iraq. Image source: Human Rights Data Analysis Group

  10. Statisticians advance computing through machine learning, speech recognition and artificial intelligence Data center

  11. Statisticians are crucial to making industry more efficientand financial institutions stronger Budweiser plant. Image source: Ryan Glenn

  12. Why study statistics? The opportunity is endless.

  13. Statistics education is incredibly useful • in a wide array of majors • Marketing • Business and Finance • Medicine and Healthcare • Data Science • Journalism • Communications and Public Relations • Government and Public Policy • Biological Sciences • Environmental Sciences • Criminology • Genetics • Physical Therapy and Movement Sciences • Marine Sciences • Geography • Linguistics • Food Sciences and Nutrition • Agriculture and Horticulture • Education • Statistics!

  14. Statistics education also offers a strong return on investment.

  15. “The Fastest-Growing STEM Major in the U.S.” Move over, computer science.Bachelor’s Degrees in Statistics have soared 95% since2010…the number of U.S. colleges granting degrees in the field has already gone up, from 74 in 2003 to 110 within 10 years, and 20 more schools have recently added new programs. Source: Fortune, February 10, 2015

  16. In fact, statistics graduates are in • high-demand across nearly every industry. Among the fastest-growing jobs. The McKinsey Global Institute predicts a shortage of up to 190,000 people with the data analysis skills to work with Big Data. Most in-demand skill in 2014, according to LinkedIn.

  17. “#1 in Best Business Jobs” Statistics is one of the oldest professions in the world, it dates back to the 1700s. There’s a tremendous history ...and now more exciting opportunities. It has never been a better time to be a statistician. Source: U.S. News & World, February 12, 2016

  18. Statistics offers a wide variety of careersto choose from. Women earn more than 40% of undergraduate statistics degrees. Ranked by Fortune as the top graduate degreebased on salary, growth and job satisfaction.

  19. Statistics offers a wide variety of careers to • choose from • Environmental statistician • Industrial statistician for a manufacturer • Econometrician in financial services • Biostatistician • Data journalist • Director of analytics for a professional sports team • Professor of statistics • Data analyst of marine life • Data scientist at a software company • Public health statistician for a municipal health department • Statistician at a human rights organization • Data scientist for a political campaign • Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau • Data analyst at an online retailer • Clinical trial statistician at a pharmaceutical company

  20. A career in statistics means choosing an exciting field where your work really matters.

  21. Source: The Washington Post, “Women Flocking to Statistics, the Newly Hot,High-Tech Field of Data Science,” December 2014. “Women Flocking to Statistics” • As the demand explodes for workers in high-tech professions who can analyze the staggering amounts of raw digital data produced every year, women barely register. • Except In One Field: Statistics.

  22. So, what are you waiting for? Start studying statistics today! • Sign up for acourse in statistics. • Consider doing a minor in statistics. • If you like everything you’ve heard today, consider pursuing a degree in statistics. The possibilities are endless.

  23. Learn more at ThisisStatistics.org

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