The discussion here suggests that a lot of developers are jumping right into the middle of data science from a machine learning perspective without a solid unde

The discussion here suggests that a lot of developers are jumping right into the middle of data science from a machine learning perspective without a solid understanding of what I would call basic math. It's a lot easier to succeed and compete with a solid grasp of linear algebra, calculus and numerical methods. My personal experience is that curriculum takes a good couple years to really get your head around. For my current project I had to really understand the closed-form solution for linear regression and even it looks straightforward on paper it really took a while to sink in.