I'm in a similar situation, as I'm trying to decide whether or not to minor in statistics on top of computer engineering. From a hacker's perspective, I've foun

I'm in a similar situation, as I'm trying to decide whether or not to minor in statistics on top of computer engineering. From a hacker's perspective, I've found that playing around with the language R is the best way to relate to the field. Check our the tutorial R for Programmers linked from here: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.html