[News] Searching for Meaning in the Digital Deluge

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Searching for Meaning in the Digital Deluge

At Harvard University, Carrie Grimes majored in archaeology and
ventured to places like Honduras, where she studied Mayan settlement
patterns by mapping where artifacts were found.  But she was drawn
to what she calls "all the computer and math stuff" that was part
of the job.

"People think of field archeology as Indiana Jones, but much of what
you really do is data analysis," she said.

Now Ms. Grimes does a different kind of digging.  She works at Google,
where she uses statistical analysis of mounds of data to come up with
ways to improve its search engine.

Ms. Grimes is an Internet-age statistician, one of many who are changing
the image of the profession as a place for dronish number nerds.
They are finding themselves increasingly in demand--and even cool.

"I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be
statisticians," said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google.
"And I'm not kidding."



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