I agree whole heartedly. When I first started playing around with data, despite my lite statistics background, I had no idea what I was doing and no amount of e

I agree whole heartedly. When I first started playing around with data, despite my lite statistics background, I had no idea what I was doing and no amount of education would have prepared me for noisey, real life data sets. I had to become proficient with SQL and a certain type of problem solving and hacker mentality before I was able to do anything useful. What's interesting now though is that since returning to college and taking more advanced courses in probability and statistics, I now have a "practical" background that allow me to see real life use cases for almost everything I'm learning (oh wonderful Bayes theorem!) that is a huge advantage.