ANALYTICS OR ECONOMETRICS

Getting and storing data used to be hard

Analytics

Is newspeak for ‘it’s numbers and more than just that’

Is the backlash of non statistically trained people to also do numbers

Avinash Kaushik who is Analytics Evangelist is an engineer and MBA by training

Econometrics in the decline

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=analytics%2Ceconometrics%2Bmodeling%20%2Bmodelling%20-%20agency%20-agencies%2Cstatistics%2Canalysis&cmpt=q

It’s probably because of this

Analytics is happening in India

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This is statistics

This is econometrics

This is analytics

Despite the buzz you cannot really study analytics

This is actually a rebranded OR degree

Recommendation

Study general statistics or maths at uni and then see which area most interests you

ThanksWhere I work: Targetbase Claydon Heeley

Where I blog: Maximum Likely

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