Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Bostonian, that's a great write-up! Data science is what I think my DD is most likely to go into. It appeals to her on every level, and plays to all of her strengths intellectually. smile
Thanks, but the sentence

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At e-commerce site operator Etsy Inc., for instance, a biostatistics Ph.D. who spent years mining medical records for early signs of breast cancer now writes statistical models to figure out the terms people use when they search Etsy for a new fashion they saw on the street.
makes even a market fundamentalist like me wonder about how brainpower is being deployed.