Why be an Statistician?
To tell about why I chose to be an Statistician and also help you to understand my Career Objectives (see: http://community.mis.temple.edu/lbianchi/career-goals/ ) I need to tell you a brief history about how I made this decision.
In Brazil, the Educational System is not that different than the American Educational System, when we complete the 12th year of Vocational Education, all students apply to a course in a specific university through an exam, the student is free to apply in many different universities that he/she wants to study. Thus many students, I was facing the question: “Which major shoul
During the college, I learn the software R, it is one of many programs for Statisticians. I used it to programming, and I liked to spend my time trying to write functions that could solve problems. It resulted posters in many congress. The passion for programming was arising and in January of this year, Forbes published an article called “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of The Century?” (see: http://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2014/01/21/data-scientist-sexiest-job-of-the-century/) . After some research about what is Data Science and Data Scientist, I decided to be the Sexiest Professional of the Future, an Data Scientist with major in Stats. One day later, I started to write an algorithm that classify twitters by sentimental as my first step into Data Science. It is running properly! Now, my next step, it is still my secret because I am going to present the full work as my Final Project in Brazil.
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