Best Future Job #4: Forecaster of Everything

Job: Analyze data to predict the future.

Hiring: 2015

Trend: The U.S. Bureau of Labor estimates that demand for statistics wonks will swell by 20 percent by 2018. As the barrage of data grows-tweets, insulin-meter uploads, facial-recognition billboards-we'll need skilled people to choose what data to pull and how to make it useful. As businesses become more dependent on these analyses, the raw data itself will become a key commodity, creating its own industry. Expect openings for data brokers trading exclusive rights to data portfolios.

Education: Study computer science or stats, then enroll in a prediction-proficiency program such as DePaul University's.

[ Editor: see DePaul University and IBM Offers MS in Predictive Analytics
and www.kdnuggets.com/education/ ]

The top future jobs, according to Popular Science, are

1. Space Pilot
2. Animal-Migration Engineer
3. Fetus Healer
4. Forecaster of Everything
5. Organ Designer
6. Human/Robot Interaction Specialist
7. World Watcher
8. Galactic Architect
9. Fusion Worker
10. Thought Hacker

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Comments:

GregoryPS
It seems that future is now - demand for forecasting /analytics is already here