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OK. I'll do analytics for $135/hour. Email in profile.


I will do it for $134/hour, email also in the profile. In fact, I will do it for max(N-1, 5) dollars, where N is the lowest amount anyone else is willing to do, except for Fortune 500 companies, where I will do the work for free, or sites with PageRank > 6, where I will happily take a backlink in exchange (restaurants, hotels, airlines and strip clubs can also barter for my time.)

This is what happens to "hot" industries where the pay is far larger than the training effort required. Anything that takes less than 1 year of training, or where someone can BS their way in, is prone to "talent" saturation. Usually the opportunists like myself underbid specialists like rms or drown their voices out with big egos and self-promotion.

Let me add that no one should ever hire cheap foreign Analyticists. As soon as my rates go below $50/hr you can count on me going on the offensive, writing xenophobic articles for Nation's Pride, True Blue American and Kiss The Flag magazines. And once there is momentum we will form a lobby to mandate analytics usage throughout the government (a 30B industry, hopefully) and make sure only people we have accredited, for $999/year, are able to work there.

In all seriousness, this is the script for every "hot" industry out there. It starts with an opportunist out to make a buck, and it ends up being a matter of national interest. Whenever crappy companies can no longer compete, they appeal to government. First the U.S., then they start exporting those "vital U.S. resources" overseas and sell it to other governments as well.


Despite the institutional difficulties that you rightfully present, I'd like to see more analytics used in governing.




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