-: I think any math related field is really important,
but also layering it with,
you know, marketing worked for me,
or maybe taking a sociology class or a psych class,
just so you understand the human side of it too,
so it's not just, I'm looking
at numbers on a piece of paper.
Part of it, you know, it's like
what is the best class to take
or what is the best major,
but I think also a good person
that would work really well in this is
someone who can easily switch
back and forth to from like technical things
to explaining this to someone
who doesn't know a lot about it
and kind of being like that middle person.
Any sort of like, analytics experience,
like if you're in a research lab
or you, you know, have like an internship
or you're in a student group where you're, you know,
managing the money or something.
I think anywhere where you can like
do some analytics and kind of get some
exposure to how that works I think
is important and working with data.
Base knowledge, Excel,
like that's a really good jumping off point.
I use Tableau a lot and it would be
super awesome to learn it in school,
but it's okay if you don't.
I think, I was able to learn Tableau quickly
because of other programs
and other softwares that I had used.
So, learning pivot tables on Excel was extremely helpful.
Also, taking any sort of programming class
whether it's like visual basic, Python, Java, C++.
Even if you never program in your life,
taking a programming class forces
you to think differently and forces
you to approach problems differently
and I found that extremely helpful in my job.