So what is the ultimate job? According to Hal Varian, chief economist at Google, it is being a statistician (see this interview) Here he is on YouTube with a longer comment: Statistics - Dream Job of the next decade From a keynote presentation to the 2008 Almaden Institute - “Innovating with Information”. The full presentation is available at http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute/agenda.shtml Hal Varian makes the argument that with data in huge supply and statisticians in short supply, being a statistician has to be the ‘really sexy job for the …