(This article was first published on Revolutions, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers)
According to Microsoft, the hottest three new tech majors are:
- Data Mining/Machine Learning/AI/Natural Language Processing
- Business Intelligence/Competitive Intelligence
- Analytics/Statistics – specifically Web Analytics, A/B Testing and statistical analysis
Tim O'Reilly concurs. Of course, R features prominently in most of these areas -- follow the links I added above for examples -- and is growing rapidly, so learning R makes for a smart career choice.
Microsoft Careers JobsBlog: The Top Three hottest new majors for a career in technology
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Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
