Econometrics is pretty valuable for any of the data-mining operations. Most econ majors I know are really good with stats and enjoy digging into datasets almost

Econometrics is pretty valuable for any of the data-mining operations. Most econ majors I know are really good with stats and enjoy digging into datasets almost obsessively. I'd certainly hire them. Good economists also have a well structured way of reasoning through problems. As the article says, Varian, author one of the more mathy econ intro text (imo haven't sampled all) has been at Google for quite some time now. So yeah...why not?