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Why learn statistics (and R)?
With the birth of "big data", statistics is a rapidly growing profession, and R is amongst the most popular programming environments for statistical analysis. Lets not forget about "small data" that we all know and love either, because its even more challenging to draw inferences about populations when our sample sizes are low. Statisticians are widely employed in industry, government and academia and its a cool job visuaiziing patterns and testing hypotheses. The following video from the American Statistical Association says it all.