Before our current crop of graduates were born, there was the movie "The Graduate". One famous scene has our hero walking around at a party in his honor. He is given some sage career advice: "One word. Plastics".

The newest member of the DataRush team, who is still a student, found the following quote and thought it was interesting and very DataRush related. Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist (and intellectual superhero), says on a Freakonomics blog post:

“If you are looking for a career where your services will be in high demand, you should find something where you provide a scarce, complementary service to something that is getting ubiquitous and cheap. So what’s getting ubiquitous and cheap? Data. And what is complementary to data? Analysis. So my recommendation is to take lots of courses about how to manipulate and analyze data: databases, machine learning, econometrics, statistics, visualization, and so on.”