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Skills that raise your pay

• R and Python

  The two languages statisticians actually work in. Learn both, deeply.

• SQL (the language used to pull data out of databases)

  Almost every real job starts with getting the data out of somewhere.

• Clinical trial design

  The specific rules that regulators expect. This is the skill that pays the most.

• Causal inference

  Working out whether something caused an outcome, not just moved with it. In demand at tech companies and in policy work.