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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Statistician here working in Data Science last 15 years. I'd say a degree in Applied Statistics or Operations Research would serve you well. However, like pp said earlier, some of these jobs are definitely going to go. I have kids in high school now and I'm definitely not recommending this path for them. [/quote]I’m an Operations Research guy, and OR is usually not found as an undergraduate degree. OR people are interested in statistics primarily for fitting observed data to common distributions for queueing theory; reliability, maintainability, and availability; inventory control; and simulation.

Data Science is kind of a three or four pronged thing. Finding and extracting data, performing manipulation on the data to make the data valid for analysis, performing the analysis, and presenting the results.

Statistics is probably best for the two middle steps. CS is probably best for the first step. And something like Visual Journalism is good for the last step. For more on Visual Journalism - which doesn’t get much play when discussing data science here - refer to Alberto Cairo at the University of Miami.

Finally, CS is probably best for wrapping the whole thing in a pipeline for deployment.
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