{"id":1197,"date":"2014-04-29T13:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T17:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom-magazine\/?page_id=1197"},"modified":"2014-08-05T17:18:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T21:18:38","slug":"do-you-speak-numbers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/questrom-magazine\/summer14\/do-you-speak-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Speak Numbers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cThat stats class you hated?<\/strong> It\u2019s going to come back to haunt you,\u201d warned Jeanette Horan (MBA\u201993), IBM\u2019s vice president and chief information officer, speaking on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DuHQKYwK-tA&amp;list=UUEVHS_MuYUyDkqIn29f4SBg\">Centennial Dean\u2019s Speaker Series<\/a> panel with Mike Wright, global CIO for McKinsey &amp; Company.<\/p>\n<p>Horan\u2019s comment on statistics may be the worst nightmare of many college students\u2014and seasoned pros\u2014but if you want to stay ahead in the digital workforce, her advice is simple: be fluent in the language of numbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor anybody embarking on a career now, this world of data and analytics is absolutely at the front,\u201d Horan noted. \u201cYou need to be able to speak in that language. 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