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This article is fairly sloppy journalism. It equates what Silicon Valley wants (programmers with strong math/CS backgrounds) with Information Scientists (whose
by muglug 13y ago
This article is fairly sloppy journalism. It equates what Silicon Valley wants (programmers with strong math/CS backgrounds) with Information Scientists (whose degrees prepared them for academic/archival roles).
From the actual report:
"People who make technology are still better off than people who use technology. Unemployment rates for recent graduates in information systems, concentrated in clerical functions, is high (14.7%) compared with mathematics (5.9%) and computer science (8.7%)."
- TheCoelacanth 13y ago8.7% for computer science is still rather high.
- muglug 13y agoBear in mind these figures are for 2010-2011, when overall figures for college graduates were not great, and a fear of a double-dip recession loomed large.