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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth learning web development now? by rchenmit on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @12:57AM (#8040644)
there might be an abundance of CS majors these days, but its been argued that there still is a lack of quality CS majors (http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2014/01/08/are-there-too-m...). so if you can do the dev bootcamp and become a super hacker, then its worth it.

on another note, McKinsey predicts there will be a shortage of data scientists in the upcoming years, of 140-190K. (http://www.mckinsey.com/features/big_data). If you are good at math/statistics and are willing to learn how to code, data science boot camps may be something to consider (see below). Right now a lot of data scientists are people with PhD's but this likely won't be the case in a few years. My guess is data science bootcamps will start sprouting all over the place very soon (perhaps its lagging the dev bootcamp wave by 2-3 years..)

http://www.thisismetis.com/data-science http://www.thedataincubator.com

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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth learning web development now? by joeclark77 on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @01:39AM (#8040714)
This is a good point, and I would add, marketing is one area where there's a huge need for data science, business intelligence, analytics, data visualization, etc. You might specialize in using web technologies like d3.js in building analytic dashboards for marketers, or focus on A/B testing, SEO, and other areas that require an overlap of marketing knowledge and web techniques.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth learning web development now? by jamilv on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @09:47AM (#8041947)
Funny enough my idea is to spend my web project time building a marketing focused application. Any type of marketing analytics or marketing automation tools are quite expensive so I thought it would be cool to be able to make some simple automations myself later on.
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Re:Ask HN: Is it worth learning web development now? by jamilv on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @01:02AM (#8040652)
That sounds cool!

I'm not sure I am good enough at math and statistics but I will take a look. It sounds super interesting because I know big data and data analysis is a MASSIVE industry that is on its way up.

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