You might enjoy this talk "statistics for hackers" (in case statistics is not included in your data science knowledge): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6m

You might enjoy this talk "statistics for hackers" (in case statistics is not included in your data science knowledge): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq9DzN6mvYA For structural beam analysis (ie, from mechanical and civil engineering) check out this textbook on the direct stiffness method: http://www.mastan2.com/textbook.html http://www.mastan2.com/textbook.html Unfortunately, the accompanying code (MASTAN2) is not open source and runs in Matlab. Still, it's a decent first step if you want to move to full-on Finite Element methods, which require much heavier math (real analysis) to really grasp.