What are you going to do with that Ph.D. in stats… math.
Mathematicians and Statisticians are often asked, and usually in a highly dubious tone, “so…. what are you going to do with that advanced stats/math degree?”. Sometimes it’s followed with, “teach?”
So many people must have asked this question that the department of Statistics at Colombia University put on a whole conference devoted to the subject. The conference included panelists from both Academia and Industry.
A Postdoc from the department, commented on the conference.
I thought the following was a good observation:
There is not as much flexibility in industry as with academia (research must be in the companies interests), however, the compensation is usually much better.
All industry panelists agreed that statisticians must be excited by data.
It’s true, to be a good mathematical/statistical researcher you must be excited by data!
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