Data miners now wildly popular

Maybe not wildly popular, but it's shocking to see more listings for this esoteric occupation than for such common occupations as stockbroker and mortgage broker.

Dear statistics.com member:

A Monster.com search turned up 698 openings in data mining (versus
570 for stock brokers and 470 for mortgage brokers). To learn more
About data mining, try Anthony Babinec's course, March 6-April 3.

But data miners didn't ruin the economy (at least, not yet).