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[quote=Anonymous]The stark dichotomy which you are all describing between liberal arts and technology doesn’t in fact exist, at least at most decent  liberal arts colleges now.

If for example you were to major in sociology or political science, you would take a course called research methods and then you would probably take two courses in which you learn how to deal with data in the social sciences. This would include performing queries in SQL as well as programming in R. You would also learn data visualization in a program like tableau. You could get cool internships and make a portfolio of your projects, put some stuff on GitHub or jagged and do a senior thesis that shows off your skills in working with data sources like census data, voting data, etc.

It’s possible to graduate with a degree in a soft social science and still have the sorts of skills that you can put on your résumé to be employable  as a data analyst or data scientist. It’s not all Just people in libraries reading dusty old books from the 1800s . 
There is even something called digital humanities, which I don’t know a lot about, but which again might involve some thing like writing a program to analyze all of Shakespeare’s plays, looking at how language is used and once again making cool data visualization‘s. A lot of you people who think that all humanities majors sit around writing poetry really don’t know what you’re talking about.

And it’s even possible to teach an artificial intelligence to write poetry, to combine humanities with something like linguistics which might again be interesting to an employer Since translation programs etc. rest on lots of linguistic principles as does  speech recognition[/quote]

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