An interesting article was published in the NY Times on Aug 5, 2009 stating how important statistics is in today’s world. To quote a sentence from the article: “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google. The original article can be found on the NY Times website. I meant to post this a few weeks ago, but I have been a bit lazy …
Similarly, statistics is prone to play an important role in genomics for the next decade at least with the introduction of next generation sequencers and other high throughput machines that are yet to be invented. This is good news for us, statisticians and computational biologists!
