Going the other direction (from pure software engineering to data science), a great resource I found is a book called "Think Stats": http://greenteapress.com/th

Going the other direction (from pure software engineering to data science), a great resource I found is a book called "Think Stats": http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/ http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats/. The book is available as a free PDF download in addition to the print version. The book covers statistics concepts by prompting the reader to explore a large dataset with Python, writing statistical functions along the way. A lot of it is fairly basic, but it's a good primer.