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S4M on July 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to learn data science

The topics you mention are maths or applied maths topics. "Data Science" is a bubbly term that roughly means "take that big dump of data and give me some advice on how to make more money", so your list, very sadly, has little relevance with it.

graycat on July 17, 2015 [–]

Most of those topics I listed are supposed to be good at taking data and saying how to "make more money"!

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