[BWStearns]

It seems that the nano degrees are meant to provide a specific practical skill set as opposed to a broader academic inquiry. I think those skill sets are valuable (taking algo trading now), but the course is about how to use Python and statistics to build machine learning programs for finance, not about Python, stats, or finance. Maybe it's a bit of a distinction without a difference though because you'll have the beachhead from which to expand into each of those areas afterward.