I routinely encourage students to remain aware of the role of computers (robots, artificial intelligence software, etc.) in their career paths. This is an interesting summary of trends that I also heard during recent conferences and from former students now in the workplace. Again, either you get comfortable building, maintaining, and using these tools or your job will be replaced by them. Quotes from the article:
machine learning cannot be done in isolation (without an understanding of the model and what inputs/outputs are being made).
organizations are placing a higher value on hiring workers who can use data and insights to affect change and drive transformation through art and persuasion, not only on the analytics itself.
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