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by dgb23 2199 days ago
Thank you for pointing out this fantastic resource.

> mostly aimed at working scientists

My primary goals are to learn what (primarily) data-scientists do. In the sense of: How do they think and approach problems, what are the limitations and the prerequisites etc. (And as I said to improve my math skills.)

I think there is merit in engineers learning these things (within reasonable scope) because at some point there needs to be a system that provides and transforms data into a format that scientists/analysts can work with. And in the other hand there are things that engineers can implement and learn to improve their systems. I'm excited about both and curious about how far I can get.